Geometry and Logic. The Shape of Mathematical Proof from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

Co-financed by Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

17 June 2013 - 19 June 2013

Invited Speakers

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Andrew Arana

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
16 June 2013 - 20 June 2013
Talk: Non-euclidean geometry and geometrical content

Claudio Bartocci

Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Genova
16 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
Talk: "Solving the universe": Clifford's geometric algebras

Paolo Freguglia

Università dell'Aquila, Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienze dell'Informazione e Matematica (DISIM)
17 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
Talk: Marinus Ghetaldi between Clavius and Viète: Mathematics and ‘methodus’

Orna Harari

Tel-Aviv University
16 June 2014 - 20 June 2013
Talk: Euclid’s Elements and the Principles of Demonstration in Late-antique Philosophy

Alison Laywine

McGill University
Talk: Kant and Conic Sections

Massimo Mugnai

Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa
17 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
Talk: Leibniz’s logical diagrams

Victor Pambuccian

Arizona State University
16 June 2013 - 23 June 2013
Talk: The birth of algebra and its consequences on the relations between geometry and logic

Roshdi Rashed

Centre d'histoire des sciences et des philosophies arabes et médiévales,Université Paris VII
16 June 2013 - 20 June 2013
Talk: Problèmes impossibles et problèmes indéterminés en analyse diophantienne classique

Sabine Rommevaux

CNRS
16 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
Talk: La réduction syllogistique des livres I à VI des Elements d'Euclide par Dasypodius. Méthode et enjeux

Ken Saito

Osaka Prefecture University
15 June 2013 - 23 June 2013
Talk: The diagrams of Euclid's Elements. Plane geometry, arithmetic, irrational magnitudes and solid geometry

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