Conferences
Thursday 5 June 2025, 10:00-16:00 (hybrid form)
Cross-cultural trajectories in early modern mathematics
Joint conference between MediMath and the Chair of History and Philosophy of Mathematical Sciences (ETH-Zürich). Organizers: E. Sammarchi and R. Wagner.
Programme
9:30-10:00 Coffee and welcome
10:00-11:00 Alex Garnick (Harvard University) The relationship of geometrical analysis to algebra across Arabic and Latin sources in the seventeenth century: evidence from manuscripts in the network of Jacob Golius
11:00-12:00 Eleonora Sammarchi (University of Bern) Who are “the Arabs” in early modern arithmetical-algebraic texts? Focus on the "Maumetto di Mosé arabo" of Bombelli's Algebra.
12:00-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Damian Moosbrugger (ETH-Zürich) The mixing of mathematical practices in Benjamin Bramer’s geometrical treatise Quaestiones (1618)
14:15-14:30 Break
14:30-15:30 Roy Wagner (ETH-Zürich) Potential transmission of knowledge from Kerala to Europe around cubic equations and sine calculation
15:30-16:30 Arilès Remaki (JGU Mainz) Disposition and Interpretation: the Bouvet-Leibniz hypothesis on the Chinese table of the Yi-Jing
Room: F -105 Lerchenweg 36, 3012, Bern
If you wish to attend the meeting online, please write an email to medimath.momug@unibe.ch