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[HM] Euclid and His Heritage
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Oct 4, 2005 6:52 AM
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Hi Folks,
Just to let people know that there will be 2 day Conference on "Euclid
and his Heritage" at Oxford on the 7-8th October 2005. The conference
is free but registration is essential - www.claymath.org/euclid
The flyer from the BSHM says
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A conference on Euclid and his Heritage is to beheld on the occasion of
the publication, for the first time, of a complete digital edition of
the oldest surviving manuscript Euclid's Elements. Written around 300
BC, this is *the* founding document of mathematics. The manuscript,
dating from the year 888 AD, was copied by Stephen the Cleric in
Constantinople, and since 1804 has been in the collection of the
Bodleian Library. The digital edition was prepared by the Octavo
corporation, which photographed the manuscript at the Bodleian in the
fail of 2004.
The conference will bring together classicists, historians,
mathematicians and philosophers to provide a fresh look at Euclid's
work, the transmission of Greek science from ancient to modem times,
and the influence over twenty-three centuries of the Greek revolution
in mathematics - the notion of proof, the systematic use of figures,
the organization of a complex and interconnected body of knowledge in
the form of an axiomatic system.
The conference is open to all those in the research and scholarly
communities as well as anyone with an interest in the origins and
development of scientific thought. Facsimiles of selected pages of the
manuscript to be discussed will be provided to all conference
participants.
Speakers will include:
Sonja Bren History of Science and Mathematics,
ISMC, Aga Khan University, London Bill Casseiman,
Mathematics,
University of British Columbia Jeremy Gray, History of Mathematics,
Open University Robin Hartshorne, Mathematics, UC Berkeley Alexander
Jones, Classics, University of Toronto Ian Mueller, Philosophy,
University of Chicago Eleanor Robson, History and Philosophy of Science,
Cambridge University Mark Schiefsky, Classics, Harvard University
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