On the occasion of David E. Rowe's retirement, a three-day symposium will be held at the institute of mathematics:
[Schedule] [Conference Poster] [Abstracts]
| Date: | May, 18-20, 2016 |
| Venue: | Institute of Mathematics, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Staudinger Weg 9, 55099 Mainz |
| Organizer: | Tilman Sauer (tsauer@uni-mainz.de) |
Speakers:
| Tom Archibald, Vancouver: | “Halmos and Dieudonné on Integration and Measure: a controversy at mid-century on method and application” |
| June Barrow-Green, Milton Keynes: | “ ‘knowledge gained by experience’: Olaus Henrici—engineer, geometer and maker of mathematical models” |
| Moritz Epple, Frankfurt: | „The dynamics of weak knowledge: Another look at ‚Topologie’ and ‚analysis situs’ in the 19th century“ |
| Tinne Kjeldsen, Copenhagen: | „John von Neumann’s minimax theorem in the beginning of game theory and a dispute about its importance“ |
| Jesper Lützen, Copenhagen: | „Laurent Schwartz: Denmark, distributions and the Fields Medal“ |
| Walter Purkert, Bonn: | „Felix Hausdorff als Philosoph und Literat“ |
| Volker Remmert, Wuppertal: | „Mathematics and its history in Mainz: the early years“ |
| Erhard Scholz, Wuppertal: | “Cartan’s exchange between Einstein and E/F Cosserat (1921–23), or: Why translative curvature is known as torsion” |
| Marjorie Senechal, Northampton, MA: | “Yesterday today” |
| Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Kristiansand: | „Adolf von Harnacks letzte Veröffentlichung 1930, eine Diskussion in der Zeitschrift ‚Die Koralle’ und eine unveröffentlichte Reaktion von Richard von Mises“ |
| Klaus Volkert, Wuppertal: | „Mathematics outside Göttingen: the case of Otto Wilhelm Fiedler“ |
| Scott Walter, Nantes: | „Science and technology in Göttingen’s golden era: the first Wolfskehl lectures“ |
We thank Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB/TR45, Emmy-Noether-Nachwuchsgruppe H. Ruddat) and Institute of Mathematics, JGU Mainz, for financial support.
Photo David Rowe: Archives of the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach.