Michael Kinyon suggested that a list be made of talks given at the recent (June 10-12) meeting of the CSHPM (Canadian Society for the History & Philosophy of Mathematics) at Hamilton, Ontario. I'll do that, giving the speaker and topic in alphabetical order by author.
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Francine F. Abeles. Game Theory and Politics: a Note on C.L. Dodgson.
Amy Ackerberg-Hastings. The Semi-Secret History of Charles Davies.
Christopher Baltus. Gauss's Algebraic Proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (1815).
Ed Cohen. The Leap-Year Problem Has Not Gone Away. (Simon Newcomb biography also).
Thomas Drucker. Language, Truth, and Logic in Russell's Mathematics.
Craig Fraser. Hilbert's Grundlagen der geometrie and its relation to Euclid's elements.
Roger Godard. Interpolation Theory at The Dawn of a New Millennium: A Historical Approach.
Hardy Grant. Greek Mathematics in Cultural Context.
Nicholas Griffin. Russell's Logicism is not 'If-Thenism'.
Agnes Kalemaris. Grace Murray Hopper was a Mathematician.
Israel Kleiner. Aspects of the evolution of field theory.
Erwin Kreysig. "Modern" Starts. (i.e., early 20th century).
Sharon Kunoff. A Commentary on the First Hebrew Geometry and its Relationship to the First Arabic Geometry.
Gregory Lavers. Godel, Carnap and Friedman on Analyticity.
Daryn Lehoux. The Zodiacal days in the Geminus and Miletus parapegmata.
Albert C. Lewis. The Contrasting Views of Charles S. Peirce and Bertrand Russell on Cantor's Transfinite Paradise.
Hugh McCague. The Mathematics of Building and Analysing a Medieval Cathedral.
Duncan Melville. Third Millennium Mathematics: A Brief Survey.
Mike Millar. Archimedes and His Determination of the Centres of Gravity of Parabolic Segments and Parabolic Zones.
Gregory Moore. Editing mathematicians: Bertrand Russell and Kurt Goedel.
K. Ram Murty. Euclid, Brahmagupta, and ABC.
Adrian Rice. The Introduction of Cauchian Calculus into Mid-19th-Century Britain.
Adrian Robitaille. Can We Learn Something about Combinatorics from Review Journals?
Donna Stewart-Spraggon. Felix Klein's "Erlanger Programm" and its influence.
Jim Tattersall. Vignettes from Gerbert's Mathematics.
Rudiger Thiele. On Hilbert's 24th Problem.
Robert Thomas. Mathematics and fiction: A pedagogical comparison.
Glen Van Brummelen. sin(1 degree): From Ptolemy to al-Kashi.
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Hope this can be useful.
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