Archives 1996–2012 de l’ancienne équipe REHSEIS
Laboratoire SPHERE – UMR 7219

Program

09h30-10h June Barrow-Green (The Open University, Co-Editor in Chief of Historia Mathematica), Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht) and Sebastien Maronne (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona & SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot, Guest Editor of the special
issue), Introduction

History and Philosophy

10h00-10h30 Mic Detlefsen (University of Notre Dame & ANR Chaire d’excellence Ideals of Proof"), Philosophical challenges from the history of mathematics

10h30-10h50 Ken Manders (Pittsburgh University), On Descartes’ early algebra

10h50-11h20 Discussion

11h20-11h30 Pause

Issues : circulation and contrasting approaches

11h30-11h50 Erik-Jan Bos (University of Utrecht), Princess Elizabeth of Bohemia and Descartes’ Letters (1650-1665)

11h50-12h10 Dominique Descotes (CERHAC-CIBP, Université Clermont-Ferrand II), An unknown theorem by Blaise Pascal

12h10-12h30 Massimo Galuzzi (Università di Milano), Newton’s attempt to construct an unitary view of mathematics

12h30-13h00 Discussion

13h00-14h00 Buffet Lunch

Emergence

14h00-14h20 David Rabouin (SPHERE, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot), What Descartes knew of mathematics in 1628

14h20-14h40 Andrew Arana (Kansas State University & ANR Chaire d’excellence Ideals of Proof"), Descartes and the cylindrical helix

14h40-15h10 Discussion

15h10-15h20 Pause

Contexts

15h20-15h40 Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht),The scholar and the fencing master : the exchanges between Joseph Justus Scaliger and Ludolph van Ceulen on the circle quadrature (1594-1596)

15h40-16h00 Liesbeth de Wreede (University of Utrecht), A dialogue on the use of arithmetic in geometry : Van Ceulen’s and Snellius’s Fundamenta Arithmetica et Geometrica

16h00-16h20 Marco Panza (IHPST, CNRS-Université Paris 1), Rethinking Geometrical Exactness

16h20-16h50 Discussion

16h50-17h00 Conclusion