ICHM: Celebration of honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics

The International Commission on the History of Mathematics are holding a meeting to celebrate honours recently awarded to historians of mathematics. A book of abstracts can be found at the bottom of the page, and you can register for the meeting via this link. 

This event is followed by the annual Research in Progress meeting of the BSHM on March 7th, also in Oxford: find out more

Programme

14:00-14:45  Ursula Martin (University of Oxford) – DBE 2025
Hidden figures: the women who made Oxford computing

14:45-15:30  Henning Heller (University of Bonn) – ICHM Montucla Prize 2025
Mellen Woodman Haskell (1863–1948): An American mathematics student of the Wanderlust generation

15:30-16:00  Break

16:00-16:45  David E. Rowe (University of Mainz) – ICHM Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize 2025
What Riemann learned from Gauss: When and How

16:45-17:30  Jan Hogendijk (University of Utrecht) – ICHM Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize 2025
Applied mathematics in Ottoman Palestine: The treatise by Taqi al-Din on sundials

17:30-18:30 Drinks reception