Talks given to the BSHM, 1971-2007

Talks are listed in alphabetical order of speaker, and then by date, co-authored talks being listed after single-authored ones.

A – B – C – D – E – F – G – H – I – J – K – L – M – N – O – P – Q – R – S – T – U – V – W – X – Y – Z

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Abeles, Francine, Betting round aka parimutuel betting: a note on C. L. Dodgson, July 15-17 1999
Abeles, Francine F, C J Hargreave’s and H J S Smith’s sieve methods, 9-11 July 2004
Abeles, Francine F., The Tangled Tale of Dodgson’s Condensation of Determinants, 27-29 July 2007
Acheson, David, New twists on old problems in mechanics, 14 December 2002
Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy K, From Cambridge to Cambridge: the mathematical significance of John Farrar’s European sojourns, 9-11 July 2004
Ackerberg-Hastings, Amy, Euler and the Enlightenment Mathematicians: A Scottish Perspective, 27-29 July 2007
Ackermann, Silke, Islamic instruments, Sept 18-19 1999
Adams, Rebecca, The beginnings of general topology, July 18-20 1997
Adams, Rebecca, The name 'topology' from applied mathematics, July 15-17 1999
Adamson, Ian, The History of Infinity, 22 September 2007
Agar, Jon, A new course on the history of computing and culture, March 11 1995
Aggarwal, Abhilasha, Civil Servants for British India from 1800 to 1858, 24 February 2001
Aggarwal, Abhilasha,The East India Military Seminary, 23 February 2002
Aggarwal, Abhilasha, The development of western mathematics in Calcutta, 1800 – 1858, 22 February 2003
Aggarwal, Abhilasha, Mathematical education for surveyors and mariners employed under the East India Company, 1800-1880, 26 February 2005
Aggarwal, Abhilasha, Mathematical text-books for and in India in the 19th century, 9 December 2006
Ahrens, Richard, The history of decorative knots and the impossibility of tying rectangular parallelepiped knots, 7 May 2005
Aiton, Eric, Teaching the history of mathematics, Sept 13-15 1974
Aiton, Eric, Leibniz, China, and the binary system, July 2 1977
Aiton, Eric, The work of Christiaan Huygens, Sept 14-16 1979
Aiton, Eric, Polygons and parabolas: some problems concerning the representation of planetary orbits in the 17th century, Dec 17 1986
Aiton, Eric, Newton and Euler on the theory of tides, Sept 17-20 1987
Aiton, Eric, Euler's cosmic physics, Nov 18 1987
Aiton, Eric, A history of mathematics course for undergraduate students of mathematics, Sept 1-3 1988
Aiton, Eric, The prize essays of 1740 on the theory of the tides, April 5 1990
Aiton, Eric, Astronomy in the age of Thomas Harriot, Sept 18-20 1990
Alberts, Gerard, Mathematical model: the struggle for an adequate notion of applying mathematics, April 3-5 1995
Alberts, Gerard, Mathematical modelling in the 20th century, September 13-15 1996
Alberts, Gerard, Mathematics in the real world: introductory orientations and periodisation, September 13-15 1996
Aldrich, John, P. J. Daniell of King Edward's and beyond, 9 December 2006
Aldrich, John, The Enigma of Karl Pearson and Bayesian Inference, 23 March 2007
Allaire, Patricia, A glimpse of Duncan F Gregory through his letters, 9-11 July 2004
Almeida, Dennis, The numerical and proof tradition in Indian mathematics, 18-20 April 2000
Alosio, Mario, Early computing at the Malta Statistics Office, 4 March 2006
Altmann, Simon, Hamilton's rotations and the work of Olinde Rodrigues, Oct 16 1993
Amaral, Elza, The introduction of abstract algebra into Portugal, April 3-5 1995
Amaral, Elza, Portuguese mathematics in the 1940s, April 11-14 1997
Amato, Daniela, Raymond Flood, Peter Neumann and Jackie Stedall, History in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum: examples from current practice Oxford, 15 November 2003
Amerom, Barbara van, Reinvention of algebra: developmental research on elementary algebra for 11 to 14 year old students, April 11-14 1997
Amerom, Barbara van, The re-invention of algebra in the classroom; developmental research on the transition from arithmetic to equation solving, 18-20 April 2000
Amson, John C, Substituting brass for brains: Kelvin's invention of continuous calculating machines, July 20-21 1995
Andersen, Kirsti, Wessel's work on complex numbers and its place in history, 23 February 2002
Anderson, David, Technology transfer in the 1940s, 9-11 July 2004
Anderson, David, Turing and computing, 5 June 2004
Anderson, Ian, The Anstice mystery, May 21 1998
Anderson, Roy, The mathematics of epidemics, Oct 9 1998
Annette, John, Recent developments in the history of ideas, March 11 1995
Appel, Kenneth and Wolfgang Haken, Solving the four-colour problem, 23 October 2002
Appleman, Jacob, The life of Emil Post and his 'polyadic groups', July 15-17 1999
Archdeacon, Dan, From the Heawood conjecture to topological graph theory, 23 October 2002
Archibald, Thomas, Rational mechanics and mechanical physics in the Crelle-Borchardt journal, July 15-17 1999
Archibald, Thomas, French research programs in differential equations in the late nineteenth century, 9-11 July 2004
Archibald, Tom, British mathematical values and Canadian mathematics, July 18-20 1997
Archibald, Tom, On Broadening the Sources for the History of Mathematics: Variations on a Theme of John Fauvel, 27-29 July 2007
Arthur, Richard, The transcendancy of pi and Leibniz's philosophy of mathematics, July 15-17 1999
Ashby, Heather, Plücker’s geometrical models, 28 February 2004
Ashford, O.M., Lewis Fry Richardson: the man and his life, May 6 1989
Ashwin, Peter (Exeter), History in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum: examples from current practice - Exeter, 15 November 2003
Ashworth, William J, "Labour harder than thrashing": John Flamsteed, property and intellectual labour in nineteenth-century England, September 13-15 1996
Aspray, William, von Neumann, Sept 18-19 1993
Aspray, William, Classical applied mathematics, an early casualty of the computer, September 13-15 1996
Aspray, William, John von Neumann and the Institute for Advanced Study Computer Project, 29 November 2003
Atiyah, Sir Michael, Some memories of the Mathematics Institute, Oxford, May 11-12 1991
Atzema, Eisso, Dupin, Quetelet, Gergonne: the formation of a theory of caustics in the 1820s, 26 Feb 1994
Atzema, Eisso J, The concept of the infinitely thin pencil and the rise of the optometric community, 9-11 July 2004
Aubin, David, Neither pure nor applied: catastrophe theory, chaos and the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques, July 15-17 1999
Austin, TH and AEL Davis, Robert Record: a question of sheep, Dec 17 1998

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Back, Jenni, Mouldy Maths, 17 May 2003
Baldini, Ugo, The Jesuit Order and organized mathematics training in Spain, Portugal and the East lndies: 1570-1640, Mar 31-Apr 3 1993
Ball, John, Analysis (calculus of variations), May 19-20 2000
Baltus, Christopher, Issues in the fundamental theorem of algebra 1746-1816, July 15-17 1999
Baltus, Chris, Euler's Continued Fractions, 27-29 July 2007
Bannister, Nicky and Tony Mann, Re-designing the BSHM Website, 17 May 2003
Barbin, Evelyne and Anne Michel-Pajus, The role of problems in the history and teaching of mathematics, April 10-12 1992
Barker, Andrew, The mathematics of beauty: reflections on Ptolemy's Harmonics, Dec 21 1989
Barker, Andrew, Experimental Instruments in Ancient Greek Musical Theory, 22 December 2007
Barnard, George, R.A. Fisher's controversies with the Pearson school, Sept 13-15 1985
Baron, Margaret, The background to mathematical education in sixteenth-century England, April 10 1976
Barreno, Pedro Garcia, The Madrid Mathematical Academy of 158, Mar 31-Apr 3 1993
Barrow-Green, June, Two mathematical congresses: Chicago 1893, Zurich 1897: their origins and consequences, Dec 20 1993
Barrow-Green, June, The early years of Acta Mathematica, Sept 16-18 1994
Barrow-Green, June, Cayley's Cambridge pupils,Feb 11 1995
Barrow-Green, June, Mathematics in Edinburgh 1860-1901, July 20-21 1995
Barrow-Green, June, 'Mathematics and opium': the development of Empire, Sept 16-17 1995
Barrow-Green, June, Burnside and applied mathematics, October 25 1997
Barrow-Green, June, Mathematics in Britain 1860-1940: the BRITMATH database on the World Wide Web, July 15-17 1999
Barrow-Green, June, Exploring history of mathematics through the web, Oct 23 1999
Barrow-Green, June, P.G. Tait and his Edinburgh Context, 2 July 2001
Barrow-Green, June, Isaac Todhunter: "Mathematics for more than the million", 22 May 2002
Barrow-Green, June, George Birkhoff and celestial mechanics, 22 September 2002
Barrow-Green, June, The role of British mathematicians in the First World War, 28 May 2004
Barrow-Green, June, From Research in Progress to progress in research, 26 February 2005
Barrow-Green, June, The dramatic episode of Sundman: the changing fortunes of a mathematical result, 4–7 April 2005
Barrow-Green, June, “Much necessary for all sortes of men”: 450 years of Euclid in English, 24-25 September 2005
Barrow-Green, June, Tripos, tennis and tribunals: the diary of F.P. White, 1915-1916 (Presidential Address), 10 December 2005
Barrow-Green, June, Cayley’s Cambridge pupils, 11 April 2006
Barrow-Green, June, “Anti-aircraft guns all day long”: Computing for the Ministry of Munitions, 23 March 2007
Barrow-Green, June, Euler and education, 30 June 2007
Barrow-Green, June, Planes and pacifism: activities and attitudes of British mathematicians during WWI, 15 November 2007
Barrow-Green, June, and Janet Burt, British mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries: the use of the kleio database management system, 22 Oct 1994
Barrow-Green, June, and Eleanor Robson, How History Can Help Your Maths Teaching: Introduction, 30 March-2 April 2005
Barrow-Green, June, Eleanor Robson and Tony Mann, History of maths for undergraduates, 4–7 April 2005
Bayley, Mel, Dickens and statistics, 24 February 2007
Beasley, John, Eighteenth century recreational mathematics, Oct 24 1992
Beaujouan, Guy, The place of Chuquet in a typology of 15th century French arithmetics, Sept 27-30 1984
Becher, Harvey, William Whewell and Cambridge mathematics, 1820-1840, Jan 10 1987
Beckers, Danny, "My little arithmeticians!": Pedagogic ideals in Dutch mathematics textbooks, 1790-1850, 26 February 2000
Beckers, Danny, Social history in Dutch mathematics textbooks, 24-25 September 2005
Beeley, Philip, The correspondence of John Wallis (1616-1703), Feb 27 1999
Beeley, Philip, Between cooperation and controversy: Wallis and the scientific discussion in Europe in the second half of the seventeenth century, 25 October 2003
Beery, Janet L, Thomas Harriot’s treatise on figurate numbers, finite differences, and interpolation formulas, 9-11 July 2004
Beery, Janet, Navigating Between Triangular Numbers and Trigonometric Tables: How Thomas Harriot Developed His Interpolation Formulas, 27-29 July 2007
Bekken, Otto, The history of mathematics workshop, Kristiansand, Norway, Sept 1-3 1988
Bell, Jordan, Euler's summation of a divergent series involving the pentagonal numbers, 27-29 July 2007
Bell, R.C., Early gambling, Oct 24 1992
Bellhouse, David R, Lord Stanhope’s papers on the doctrine of chances, 9-11 July 2004
Bellhouse, David, The Problem of Waldegrave, 27-29 July 2007
Bendall, Sarah, Merton manuscripts and instruments, Sept 18-19 1999
Bennett, Alan, A one-sided view: the manufacture of glass surface models, Nov 13 1999
Bennett, Jim, The longitude problem in the 17th century, Sept 16-18 1983
Bennett, Jim, Mathematical instruments in Harriot's time, Sept 18-20 1990
Bennett, Jim, What were (and are) astrolabes for?, Feb 27 1999
Bennett, Jim, Frontispieces and title pages, 24-25 September 2005
Benoit, Paul, L'arithmetique commerciale de Nicolas Chuquet, Sept 27-30 1984
Berggren, John Lennart, Geometrical analysis in ancient Islam, July 15-17 1999
Berkel, Klaus van, Rudolph Snellius 1547-1613, Sept 27-30 1984
Berlivet, Luc, A discipline without a tradition: French epidemiology since 1954, Oct 9 1998
Bernalte, Antonio, The reception of a mathematical theory: non-Euclidean geometry in Spain 1874-1915, April 3-5 1995
Bernard, Alain, Mathematical problems in Proclus’ commentary on Euclid, 9-11 July 2004
Bertoloni-Meli, Nico, Leibniz's notes on Newton's Principia: a new historical discovery, Sept 17-20 1987
Bibby, Neil, Hyperbolic functions: the evolution of a concept, April 8 1988
Bibby, Neil, Hyperbolic functions: teaching and early history, Sept 1-3 1988
Bibby, Neil, Mathematics, history and the national curriculum, April 7-9 1990
Bibby, Neil, The quaternion controversy, Oct 16 1993
Bibby, Neil, Interest calculations, early binomial theorem and e, 28-31 March 1994
Bibby, Neil, Daniel Bernoulli, Karl Pearson, T. Percy Nunn and the normal distribution, 20 December 2001
Biggs, Norman, Kirkman, July 14-16 1978
Biggs, Norman, De Morgan and the four-colour conjecture, Sept 18-20 1981
Biggs, Norman, Topology from Möbius to Poincaré, Nov 17 1990
Biggs, Norman, Finite geometries, May 21 1998
Bingham, Nick, Probability in the 20th century: some aspects, Sept 13-15 1985
Bingham, Nick, Randomness: some history, June 12 1992
Bingham, Nick, Measure into probability: from Lebesgue to Kolmogorov, October 12 1996
Binzer, Morten Olesen, Plato's Meno and the early development of conic sections, April 11-14 1997
Birch, B.J., Arithmetic of elliptic curves - the period of discovery, 10 November 2001
Blondel, Christine, Ampère's experiments: from do-it-yourself kits to draftsmens' designs, June 20 1986
Bloye, Nicole, Our distance from Euclid: how has the meaning of geometry evolved?, 24 February 2007
Boag, Elizabeth, Dandelin spheres, 28 May 2004
Boag, Elizabeth, Dandelin spheres, 11 December 2004
Boag, Elizabeth, and David Kaye, The history of counting systems and numerals, Oct 23 1999
Boag, Elizabeth, and Francis Chalmers, The magic of history in the mathematics classroom, 30 March-2 April 2005
Boi, L., Poincaré's geometrical conceptions in his study of the three-body problem, Sept 17-20 1987
Bollobas, Bela, J.E. Littlewood 1885-1977, June 28 1985
Bondi, Sir Hermann, The evolution of cosmological thinking from 1916, Sept 11-13 1992
Bos, Henk, Differentials and higher differentials from Leibniz to Euler, May 20 1972
Bos, Henk, Eighteenth-century calculus, Dec 14 1976
Bos, Henk, Curves in the seventeenth century, Dec 20 1977
Bos, Henk, Why I still enjoy the history of mathematics, Feb 29 1992
Bott, Mike, Delving into Longman's Archives, 22 May 2002
Bottazzini, Umberto, Cauchy and complex-variable analysis, Sept 13-16 1989
Bottazzini, Umberto, The Foundations of n-dimensional Projective Geometry: Debates in Italy by the End of the 19th Century, 21 September 2002
Boutillier, David, The problem of mathematical objects and intuitionistic logicism, July 15-17 1999
Boyer, Carl B., Mathematics, the rainbow, and scientific prediction, June 20 1975
Brackenridge, J.B., Newton's mature dynamics and the Principia, Dec 18 1987
Bradley, Ian, History va banque!, or, the shortest way with historians, Sept 1-3 1988
Bradley, Robert, Three bodies? Why not four? The motion of the lunar apsides, 9-11 July 2004
Bradley, Rob, Euler’s Resolution of Cramer’s Paradox, 27-29 July 2007
Brey, Gerhard, Mediaeval mathematics texts in German, February 28 1998
Brin, Philippe, Michèle Grégoire, and Maryvonne Hallez, Renaissance perspective across disciplines, 28-31 March 1994
Brock, Bill, Squared paper: geometry for engineers at the end of the 19th century, Sept 14-16 1979
Brock, Bill, Richard Wormell: educator, Jan 10 1987
Bromley, Allan, Babbage's analytical engines, July 5-6 1991
Brown, David, Babylonian astronomy and mathematical methods, September 21 1997
Brown, Malcolm, Euclid, June 9 1978
Brummelen, Glen Van, Mathematical methods in the astronomical tables of medieval Islam, July 18-20 1997
Brummelen, Glen Van, The reconstruction of astronomical theories and parameters from mediaeval horoscopes, July 15-17 1999
Brummelen, Glen Van, Taking latitude with Ptolemy: Al-Kashi’s final solution to the determination of the positions of the planets, 9-11 July 2004
Brummelen, Glen van, Telling Time in 10th-Century Baghdad: A New Instrument for Solar Timekeeping Comes to Light, 27-29 July 2007
Budiansky, Stephen, Codebreaking with IBM machines in World War II, June 24 2000
Bulien, Tone, Enhancing students' attitudes towards algebra with the history of mathematics, 18-20 April 2000
Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor, Recent reinterpretations of Greek mathematics, Dec 15 1988
Burn, Bob, History for the anti-history teacher, 28-31 March 1994
Burn, Bob, Metaphors for teaching and doing mathematics, 18-20 April 2000
Burn, R P, Cauchy’s definition of limit, 9-11 July 2004
Burn, Bob, From Archimedes to limits: understanding real analysis’ (The Neil Bibby Lecture), 8–10 April 2006
Burn, Bob, Geometric Progressions in Gregory of St Vincent, 22 September 2007
Burns, Sue and Peter Wilder, Saving lives: a 19th-century statistical investigation, June 12 1992
Burns, Sue, The Illustrated London News as a resource, 28-31 March 1994
Burns, Sue, The new Nuffield 'A' level, March 11 1995
Burns, Sue, How Arab mathematicians solved quadratics and cubics using conic sections, April 12-14 1996
Burns, Sue, The history of maths at 'A' level, February 22 1997
Bursill-Hall, Piers, Calculus as taught in eighteenth-century France, Sept 10-12 1982
Bursill-Hall, Piers, Mathematics at the end of the ancien régime, Sept 13-16 1989
Bursill-Hall, Piers, An e-text in the History of Mathematics: can this be all things to all readers? 17 May 2003
Burt, Janet, The British journal The Educational Times, Sept 16-18 1994
Burt, Janet, The Educational Times database, 22 Oct 1994
Burt, Janet, History and the notion of computing, March 11 1995
Burt, Janet, What Kleio shows us, February 24 1996

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Campbell-Kelly, Martin, The ENIAC computer and the Moore School lectures 1946, Dec 18 1985
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Babbage's mathematical tables, July 5-6 1991
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Victorian Data Processing, Sept 18-19 1993
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Developments in a history of computing course, March 11 1995
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Research directions in the history of computing, April 3-5 1995
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, The Rise and rise of the spreadsheet, 22-23 September 2001
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, Genres of the history of computing; or, the confessions of a taxi driver, 28 February 2004
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, From World Brain to the World Wide Web, 9 November 2006
Cannell, Mary, Green's Mill and the life of George Green, April 10-12 1992
Cannell, Mary, and Nick Lord, George Green 1793-1841, Dec 20 1993
Care, Charles, Embodying the calculus: planimeters and analogue computing, 26 February 2005
Care, Charlie, Modelling with electrical analogy: the electrolytic tank as a design tool, 4 March 2006
Carling, D.R., Charles Babbage and the railway dynamometer car, July 5-6 1991
Carruthers, Tomás, Bishop Berkeley and the 'Analyst' controversy of the 1730s, 26 Feb 1994
Cassels, J.W.S., Number Theory as an experimental discipline, 10 November 2001
Cassinet, Jean, The first arithmetic book of Francisco Maurolico, written in 1557 and published in 1575, a step towards number theory, Sept 27-30 1984
Chabert, J-L, Un demi-siècle de fractales ... 1870-1920, Sept 13-16 1989
Chalmers, Francis, The door into summer: the charm of history in the mathematics classroom, 14 December 2002
Chalmers, Francis, History of mathematics at Key Stages 3 and 4, 8–10 April 2006
Chalmers, Francis, and Elizabeth Boag, The magic of history in the mathematics classroom, 30 March-2 April 2005
Chapman, Allan, The astronomical revolution in the age of Gauss and Möbius, Nov 17 1990
Chapman, Allan, Oxford astronomy: Halley and friends, May 11-12 1991
Chapman, Allan, Non-European cosmologies, 30 Apr-1 May 1994
Chapman, Allan, The celestial geometry of John Flamsteed: mapping the heavens from 17th Century Greenwich, 10 February 2005
Chapman, Allan, Victorian astronomy, 3–4 June 2006
Charnock, H, Early work on atmospheric diffusion, May 6 1989
Chemla, Karine, Duality in French mathematics in the early 19th century, Sept 13-16 1989
Chemla, Karine, Algorithms in Chinese mathematics, Apr 24 1993
Chemla, Karine, Mediaeval Chinese mathematics, Sept 18-19 1999
Chemla, Karine, Mathematics in ancient China: some key components of world mathematics, 8 September 2005
Chowdhury, Munibur Rahman, Cayley and the abstract group concept, 9-11 July 2004
Chowdhury, Munibur, A Birthday Gift for Euler, 27-29 July 2007
Chowdhury, Munibur, T Vijayaraghavan (1898-1955) and A. Weil (1906-1998): A Tale of a Friendship, 27-29 July 2007
Choy Chak Ngok, Rita, Groups in differential equations: from Lie to our times, April 3-5 1995
Cifoletti, Giovanna, Guillaume Gosselin's use and critique of Nuñes' Libro de Algebra, Mar 31-Apr 3 1993
Clark, David, Mechanisation of thought processes, February 28 1998
Clark, Peter, What happened and why did it happen to the 'Higher Functional Calculus'?, 31 May 2002
Clifton, Gloria, The computerisation of history: the project SIMON database of scientific instrument makers, 22 Oct 1994
Clucas, Stephen, "All the Mistery of Infinites": Thomas Harriot, atomism and mathematical infinitism, July 18-20 1997
Coates, John, The Sadleirian chair, Feb 11 1995
Coates, John, The forgotten problem, 10 November 2001
Coates, John, Euler's work on the special values of the Riemann zeta function, 30 June 2007
Cocks, Clifford, The invention of non-secret encryption, June 20 1998
Cohen, Edward L, Calendars of the Dead-Sea-Scroll sect, July 15-17 1999
Cohen, Edward L., Important Indian Calendars, 27-29 July 2007
Collings, Stanley, Paradoxes of probability, Sept 13-15 1985
Collins, June, [see also Barrow-Green] Researching into 'Poincaré and the three body problem', Feb 29 1992
Collins, June, Competitions and congresses in late 19th century Europe, Sept 11-13 1992
Connelly, J.V., Building Babbage's difference engine: an engineer's view, July 5-6 1991
Cooke, Roger, Sonya Kowalevskaya and partial differential equations, June 26 1982
Cooper, Barry, Turing and logic, 5 June 2004
Copeland, Jack, Turing and Artificial Intelligence, 5 June 2004
Costa, Shelley, "Ingenious ladies": female mathematical correspondents to the Ladies' Diary 1710-1725, 26 February 2000
Cousins, Leonie, Sarah Cowan, Hilda Merttens and Emma Shelly, Using the history of mathematics in the primary school, Oct 23 1999
Cox, Peter, The history of actuarial science up to 1820, May 25 1977
Craik, Alex, Geometry, analysis and the baptism of slaves: John West in St. Andrews and Jamaica, July 20-21 1995
Craik, Alex, Some strands of applied mathematics in the twentieth century, September 13-15 1996
Craik, Alex, John Leslie and James Ivory: the importunate and the paranoid, Dec 19 1996
Craik, Alex, Edward Sang (1805-1890): calculator extraordinary, 20 December 2001
Craik, Alex, The logarithmic tables of Edward Sang and his daughters, 31 May 2002
Craik, Alex, Victorian applied mathematics, 3–4 June 2006
Craik, Alex,The portraits of William Hopkins' Cambridge wranglers, 1829-52, 9 December 2006
Cram, David, Wallis's Grammar of the English Language, 25 October 2003
Crépel, Pierre, The teaching of probability in France at the beginning of the 19th century, Sept 13-16 1989
Crilly, Tony, Aspects of Cayley's mathematics, July 14-16 1978
Crilly, Tony, Cayley's invariant theory, Sept 18-20 1981
Crilly, Tony, Cayley's extension of the roots algorithm to the complex plane, Sept 13-16 1989
Crilly, Tony, Who was Arthur Cayley?, Feb 11 1995
Crilly, Tony, Victorian Cambridge, Sept 16-17 1995
Crilly, Tony, Arthur Cayley as an applied mathematician, 22 September 2002
Crilly, Tony, A footnote to the Four Colour Theorem, 9-11 July 2004
Crilly, Tony, Arthur Cayley: mathematical laureate of the Victorian age, 11 April 2006
Crilly, Tony, Mathematical developments in Cambridge, 3–4 June 2006
Crilly, Tony, Being a Mathematics Undergraduate at Oxford and Cambridge in the Nineteenth Century, 27-29 July 2007
Croarken, Mary, L. J. Comrie and the Scientific Computing Service Ltd, Sept 18-19 1993
Croarken, Mary, Table Making by Committee: British Table Makers 1871-1965, 22-23 September 2001
Croarken, Mary, Predicting the Heavens: An 18th century network of computers, 29 June 2002
Cross, Jim, The history of line, surface and volume integrals, Dec 17 1984
Cross, Jim, Potential theory from Newton to Lagrange, Sept 17-20 1987
Cross, Jim, Developing a database for historical research in mathematics, 22 Oct 1994
Crossley, Richard, Amazing mazes, 28-31 March 1994
Cullen, Christopher, The problem of proof: mathematical style and social context in China and Greece, April 7 1998
Cullen, Christopher, A Chinese Rhind papyrus: the Suan shu shu and the beginnings of Chinese mathematics, 9-11 July 2004
Cuomo, Serafina, Pappus and the rule that nobody observed, April 3-5 1995
Cuomo, Serafina, The truth of the land: Frontinus and Roman land-surveying, September 20 1997
Cuomo, Serafina, The measures of an emperor: Volusius Maecianus' monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius, 13 December 2003
Cupillari, Antonella, Precalculus and Calculus, the old fashioned way, 27-29 July 2007

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Dahan-Dalmedico, A., Les techniques d'analyse de Fourier chez Cauchy 1821-31, Sept 13-16 1989
Dahan-Delmedico, Amy, Models and modelizations in meteorology 1946-1960, July 15-17 1999
Dalen, Benno van, An example of applied mathematics in Islamic astronomy: the calculation of the vernal equinox by al-Kashi, July 15-17 1999
Dalgety, James, Latest news on the oldest puzzles, June 1 1996
Dampier, Michael, Creating community: The Mathematical Gazette and other journals of elementary mathematics, Sept 16-18 1994
Dampier, Mike, History of mathematics at Leicester University, Sept 1-3 1988
Dampier, Mike, Using history in mathematics teaching, May 4 1991
Dangerfield, Jan, Karl Pearson and the goodness-of-fit test, June 12 1992
Dangerfield, Jan, Statistics in the new Nuffield history option, Apr 24 1993
Dangerfield, Jan, The development of some key ideas in elementary statistics, April 12-14 1996
Dangerfield, Jan, The problem of points: Fermat and probability, April 12-14 1996
D’Antonio, Lawrence, Henry Smith and the English school of elliptic functions, 9-11 July 2004
D’Antonio, Lawrence, How Euler Built the Britannia Bridge, 27-29 July 2007
Dauben, Joseph, Georg Cantor: the roles of personality and psychology in the creation of transfinite set theory, August 6-7 1977
Davies, Bob, History in the undergraduate mathematics curriculum: examples from current practice - Open University, 15 November 2003
Davies, Donald, Breaking Enigma with the Bombes, June 20 1998
Davis, A. E. L., Modelling the origin of Menaechmus' discovery of conic sections, April 7 1998
Davis, A. E. L., Kepler's theoretical contribution to the development of the calculus, Sept 10-12 1982
Davis, A. E. L., Kepler: a fresh look: Euclid with a dash of Archimedes, Dec 21 1995
Davis, A.E.L., How ancient geometry generates a planetary orbit, or, Kepler’s coherent scheme of mathematical astronomy, 4–7 April 2005
Dear, Peter, Scholastic mathematics and the study of nature in the scientific revolution, Sept 13-15 1985
Deft, John, Enterprising maths, Apr 24 1993
Delve, Janet, Tea, decision making and the LEO Computer - a very British blend, 9-11 July 2004
Denley, Chris and Chris Pritchard, P.G. Tait and the aerodynamics of golf balls, 2 July 2001
Denley, Peter, Databases in historical research, 22 Oct 1994
Denniss, John, How big is a block of wood? and other problems, Dec 19 1996
Denniss, John, John Sharpe's "Arithmetic", 22 May 2002
Denniss, John, Arithmetical textbooks 1478 to 1886 — a progression?, 24-25 September 2005
Despeaux, Sloan, Guarding the gates: the development of mathematical refereeing for the Royal Society in the 19th century, 9-11 July 2004
Despeaux, Sloan, Victorian mathematical societies and journals, 3–4 June 2006
Despeaux, Sloan, Mathematics sent Across the Channel: Nineteenth-Century British Mathematical Contributions to International Scientific Journals, 27-29 July 2007
De Young, Gregg, Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi's "Demonstrations" of Euclid's Postulates: Mathematical and Metamathematics Issues, 27-29 July 2007
Dhombres, Jean, Mathematical text books and their authors during the French Revolution and Empire, Dec 20 1982
Dhombres, Jean, Textbooks from Lagrange to Cauchy, Sept 17-20 1987
Dhombres, Jean, To be a French mathematician in 1795, Feb 25 1989
Dhombres, Jean, Jacques Peletier du Mans and the reading of Euclid in the sixteenth century, September 12-14 1991
Dhombres, Jean, North and South: Jesuit mathematicians in Spain and Portugal from the school of Gregory of Saint-Vincent in Louvain, Mar 31-Apr 3 1993
Dhombres, Jean, Mathematical journals during the nineteenth century: strategies, role of editors, competition and decline, Sept 16-18 1994
Diffie, Whitfield, Technology and cryptography in the twentieth century, June 20 1998
Diffie, Whitfield, Non-secret encryption and public key cryptography, Apr 29 1999
Domingues, Joao Caramalho, Lacroix's work on the calculus, 22 February 2003
Domingues, João Caramalho, S F Lacroix, approximation of integrals, and the foundations of integral calculus, 26 February 2005
Domingues, João Caramalho, The calculus according to S F Lacroix, 28 February 2004
Donaldson, Simon, Geometry, May 19-20 2000
Donohue, Chris, British computing in the 1940s, 26 February 2005
Doridot, Fernand, The quest for foundations of arithmetic and set theory at the beginning of the 20th century, 24 February 2001
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The British Society for the History of Mathematics is registered as a company limited by guarantee, no. 3326816, and as a charity, no. 1061229. Its registered office is c/o Andrew Thurburn & Co, 38 Tamworth Road, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1XU, UK.