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BSHM Meetings (1992 – 2007)

(In reverse chronological order)

2007 – 2006 – 2005 – 2004 – 2003 – 2002 – 2001 – 2000 – 1999 – 1998 – 1997 – 1996 – 1995 – 1994 – 1993 – 1992

2007

Feb 24 Research in progress, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Mar 23 Karl Pearson sesquicentenary conference, Royal Statistical Society, London:
Apr 17 History of Mathematics Splinter Group, 59th British Mathematical Colloquium , University of Swansea
Jun 30 Euler's Mathematical Legacy, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
Jul 27-29 4th Joint BSHM / CSHPM Meeting, Montréal
Sep 22 Autumn Meeting, De Morgan House, London
Nov 15 Special Lecture, ''Planes and pacifism': Barnard’s Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Dec 15 Musical Instruments and Mathematical Instruments, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

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2006

Mar 4 Research in progress, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Apr 8-10 HIMED (HIstory of Mathematic in EDucation), University of Loughborough
Apr 11 History of Mathematics Splinter Group, 58th British Mathematical Colloquium , University of Newcastle
Jun 3-4 Mathematics in Victorian Britain, Rewley House, Oxford
Nov 9 Special Lecture, 'From World Brain to the World Wide Web': Barnard’s Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Dec 9 Christmas Meeting, St Edward's School, Birmingham

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2005

Feb 10 Special Lecture, The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: mapping the heavens from 17th Century Greenwich, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Feb 26 Research in progress, The Queen’s College, Oxford
Mar 30 - Apr 2 How History Can Help Your Maths Teaching, University of Warwick (part of BCME-6, Routes of Unity, the British Congress of Mathematics Education)
Apr 4-7 History of Mathematics Splinter Group, University of Liverpool (part of Mathematics 2005, incorporating the 57th British Mathematical Colloquium and the 47th British Applied Mathematics Colloquium)
May 7 Recreational Mathematics, Institute of Education, University of London
Sep 9 Maths that Changed the World. Trinity College Dublin (part of the British Association Festival of Science)
Sep 24-25 Mathematical Textbooks: History, Production, Influence, Rewley House, Oxford University
Nov 3 Special Lecture, History from below: mathematics, instruments and archaeology, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Dec 10 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College, London

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2004

Jan 19 Special Lecture, Mathematics in the metropolis - a survey of Victorian London, Barnard’s Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Feb 28 Research in progress, The Queen’s College, Oxford
May 28 History of Mathematics Afternoon, Strathclyde University
Jun 5 Turing 2004: A celebration of his life and achievements, University of Manchester (with the British Logic Colloquium)
Jul 9-11 Third Joint Conference with the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Clare College, Cambridge
Dec 11 Christmas Meeting, King Edward's School, Birmingham

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2003

Feb 22 Research in progress, The Queen’s College, Oxford
May 2 History of Mathematics Afternoon , University of Edinburgh
May 17 Teaching Mathematics through history: how can the web help? , Warwick University
Sep 20-21 History and Use of Proof in Mathematics, Rewley House, Oxford University
Oct 25 John Wallis, New College, Oxford
Nov 15 History in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum: why and how?, All Souls College, Oxford
Nov 29 John von Neumann Centenary Meeting, University of Greenwich
Dec 13 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College, London

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2002

Feb 23 Research in progress, The Queen's College, Oxford
May 4 Understanding mathematics through history (including the first John Fauvel Lecture), University of Greenwich
May 22 Mathematics Textbooks, Institute of Education, London (with the Textbook Colloquium)
May 31 History of mathematics afternoon, University of St Andrews (with School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews)
June 29 Greenwich: Some mathematical Connections, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Sep 20-22 History of Modern Mathematics, Open University, Milton Keynes (with the Open University Centre for the History of the Mathematical Sciences)
Sep 24 Special Lecture, James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician, Barnard's Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Oct 23 The Four-Colour Problem, University College, London (with London Mathematical Society)
Dec 14 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College, London


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2001

Feb 24 Research in progress, The Queen's College, Oxford
Jun 6 Special Lecture, John Wallis, Mathematician and Historian, St Anne's College, Oxford (with the Oxford Sub-Faculty of Mathematics, the Wallis Professor of Mathematics and St. Anne's College)
Jul 2 P.G. Tait Commemorative Meeting, Royal Society of Edinburgh (with the Royal Society of Edinburgh)
Sep 22-23 From Sumer to Spreadsheets: The history of mathematical tables, Rewley House, Oxford
Oct 31 Special Lecture, The incommunicable Doctor Pell, Barnard's Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Nov 10 The History of Number Theory, Mathematical Sciences Centre, Cambridge
Dec 20 Christmas Meeting, University College, London


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2000

Feb 26 Research in progress, The Queen's College, Oxford
Apr 18-20 HIMED 2000, University of Exeter
May 19-20 Hilbert's Problems: Past and Future, Mathematical Institute, Oxford (with LMS)
Jun 24 History of Cryptography, Mill Lane Lecture Rooms, Cambridge
Oct 18 Special Lecture, The Gresham Professors of Geometry: Henry Briggs to Roger Penrose, Barnard's Inn Hall, London (with Gresham College)
Dec 21 Christmas Meeting, University College, London


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1999

Feb 27 Research in Progress, Wolfson College, Oxford
Apr 29 Special Lecture, University College, London
July 15-17 BSHM/CSPHM Joint Meeting, Toronto University, Toronto
Sep17 Special Lecture, Birkbeck College, London
Sep18-19 Mediaeval mathematics, Kellogg College, Oxford
Oct 23 HIMED 99, Burnholme Community College, York
Nov 13 Surfaces, Science Museum, London
Dec 16 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College, London


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1998

Feb 28 Research in Progress, The Queen's College, Oxford
April 7 HIMED 98, University of Warwick, Coventry
May 21 History of Combinatorics, The Open University, Milton Keynes
June 16 Special Lecture, Institute of Classical Studies, London
June 20 History of Cryptography, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes
Oct 9 History of Biomathematics and Biostatistics, Wellcome Institute, London
Dec 17 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College, London


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1997

Feb 22 HIMED 97, Sheffield
March 14 J J Sylvester Commemoration, London
April 11-14 Research in progress, Warwick University
July 19-20 Joint meeting with CSHPM, Oriel College Oxford
Sept 20-21 Mathematics in the ancient world, Kellogg College Oxford
Oct 25 A celebration of William Burnside Centenary Meeting, Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Dec 6 G H Hardy 1877-1947, Mathematical Institute, Oxford
Dec 20 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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1996

Feb 24 Research in Progress Day, Imperial College London
April 12-14 HIMED 96, Lancaster
June 1 History of recreational mathematics, South Bank University
Sept 13-15 Mathematics in the real world, Pembroke College Cambridge
Oct 12 Statistics Meeting Birkbeck College London
Dec19 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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1995

Feb 11 Cayley Day, Oxford
April 3-5 Research in Progress, Gregynog
May 12-13 Recent History of Analysis, Oxford
July 20-21 Scotland's Mathematical Heritage, Edinburgh
Sept 16-17 Mathematics in Victorian Britain, Oxford
Dec 21 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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1994

Feb 26 Research in Progress Day, Imperial College London
Mar 28-31 HIMED 94, King Alfred's College Winchester
Apr 30-May 1 Non-western mathematics, Rewley House, University of Oxford
Sept 16-18 Networks of communication in mathematics in the 19th and early 20th century, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge
Oct 22 Databases in the history of mathematics, Imperial College London
Dec 19 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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1993

March 6 Research in Progress Day, Imperial College London
Mar 31-Apr 3 Iberia in the Golden Age: mathematical sciences and their uses 1500-1700, London (with other learned societies)
April 24 HIMED 93, Birkbeck College London
May 8 Mathematics textbooks, University of Leicester (with Textbook Colloquium)
Sept 18-19 The history of computation, Rewley House, University of Oxford
Oct 16 Hamilton and the discovery of quaternions 16 October 1843, Imperial College London
Dec 18 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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1992

Feb 29 Research in Progress Day, Imperial College London
April 10-12 HIMED 92, Nottingham
June 12 History of statistics, Milton Keynes (with OU)
June 13 Turner Collection, University of Keele
Sept 11-13 European mathematics 1848-1939, Gonville and Caius College Cambridge
Oct 24 Recreational mathematics, South Bank University, London
Dec 21 Christmas Meeting, Birkbeck College London


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