Browsing Oberwolfach Reports by MSC "01"

0945 - Design and Analysis of Infectious Disease Studies

[OWR-2009-48] Workshop Report 2009,48 (2009) - (01 Nov - 07 Nov 2009)

This workshop gathered 45 participants from 16 countries and had a correspondingly multifaceted program covering various infectious diseases, public health applications, and methodological innovations. The discussions and ...

1009 - Disciplines and Styles in Pure Mathematics, 1800-2000

[OWR-2010-12] Workshop Report 2010,12 (2010) - (28 Feb - 06 Mar 2010)

This workshop addressed issues of discipline and style in number theory, algebra, geometry, topology, analysis, and mathematical physics. Most speakers presented case studies, but some offered global surveys of how stylistic ...

1144 - Emigration of Mathematicians and Transmission of Mathematics: Historical Lessons and Consequences of the Third Reich

[OWR-2011-51] Workshop Report 2011,51 (2011) - (30 Oct - 05 Nov 2011)

This conference provided a focused venue to explore the intellectual migration of mathematicians and mathematics spurred by the Nazis and still influential today. The week of talks and discussions (both formal and informal) ...

1202 - Explicit Versus Tacit Knowledge in Mathematics

[OWR-2012-4] Workshop Report 2012,4 (2012) - (08 Jan - 14 Jan 2012)

This workshop aimed to bring together an international group of historians of mathematics to reflect upon the role played by tacit knowledge in doing mathematics at various times and places. The existence of tacit knowledge ...

1310 - From "Mixed" to "Applied" Mathematics: Tracing an important dimension of mathematics and its history

[OWR-2013-12] Workshop Report 2013,12 (2013) - (03 Mar - 09 Mar 2013)

The workshop investigated historical variations of the ways in which historically boundaries were drawn between ‘pure’ mathematics on the one hand and ‘mixed’ or ‘applied’ mathematics on the other from about 1500 until ...

0944a - History and Philosophy of Mathematical Notations and Symbolism

[OWR-2009-47] Workshop Report 2009,47 (2009) - (25 Oct - 31 Oct 2009)

The conference aimed to discuss the nature of mathematical language with the focus set on the history of mathematical symbolism and symbolisation in a wide sense. Its contents were arranged along three main topics—symbolization ...

0822 - History of Mathematics of the Early 20th Century: The Role of Transition

[OWR-2008-24] Workshop Report 2008,24 (2008) - (25 May - 31 May 2008)

This conference provided a focused venue to investigate the history of mathematics during a particularly active time in the discipline, that is, roughly between the turn of the 20th century and 1950. Using the lens of ...

2249b - History of Mathematics through Collaboration: Toward a Composite Portrait of Oswald Veblen

[OWR-2022-56] Workshop Report 2022,56 (2022) - (04 Dec - 10 Dec 2022)

Oswald Veblen played a pivotal role in the history of American mathematics in the twentieth century. His life, however, remains largely unstudied. This conference was designed to redress this issue by exploring Oswald ...

2051 - History of Mathematics: A Global Cultural Approach (online meeting)

[OWR-2020-41] Workshop Report 2020,41 (2020) - (13 Dec - 19 Dec 2020)

The primary purpose of this workshop was to take account of progress on an ongoing six-volume cultural history of mathematics from antiquity to the present. This project is led by nine editors working with a large team of ...

1544a - History of Mathematics: Models and Visualization in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences

[OWR-2015-47] Workshop Report 2015,47 (2015) - (25 Oct - 31 Oct 2015)

This workshop brought together historians of mathematics and science as well as mathematicians to explore important historical developments connected with models and visual elements in the mathematical and physical sciences. ...

1751 - Mathematical Instruments between Material Artifacts and Ideal Machines: Their Scientific and Social Role before 1950

[OWR-2017-58] Workshop Report 2017,58 (2017) - (17 Dec - 23 Dec 2017)

Since 1950, mathematicians have become increasingly familiar with the digital computer in their professional practice. Previously, however, many other instruments, now mostly forgotten, were commonly used to compute numerical ...

2122 - Mathematics and its Ancient Classics Worldwide: Translations, Appropriations, Reconstructions, Roles (hybrid meeting)

[OWR-2021-26] Workshop Report 2021,26 (2021) - (30 May - 05 Jun 2021)

The workshop analyzes the constitution, recovery, and role of the classical texts in mathematical practice throughout history. It aims at problematizing the notion of "classic", to make it a historical category and to study ...