The combined proceedings of the Midwest History of Mathematics Conferences
of 1996, held at The University of Akron, and of 1998, held at Iowa State
University, will be available in May. A tentative table of contents is
attached.
Orders may be placed by sending remittance to Midwest History of
Mathematics Conference, Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin
- La Crosse, La Crosse, WI 54601. The cost is $20 for orders received
before April 15th and $25 after.
Tentative Table of Contents For Combined Proceedings of the 1996 and 1998
Midwest Math History Conferences General History
Artemas Martin: An Amateur Mathematician of the Nineteenth Century
Pat Allaire........................................1
Mathematics and the Moscow Mathematical Society as a Scientific, Moral,
and Economic Tool in Russia, 1861-1931
Paul Buckingham...................................13
The Prime Number Theorem: Theory and Practice
Mark Bollman......................................43
The Early History of the Cornell University Mathematics Department:
Women and the German Influence
Gary Cochell......................................55
Tartaglia Errs - Bombelli Gloats! Another Example of Collegiality
Among Renaissance Algebraists
Daniel J. Curtin..................................69
Writing Mathematical Biography, a Personal Account
John W. Dawson Jr.................................74
Pre-Columbian Native American Number Systems
Thomas E. Gilsdorf................................89
The Binomial Theorem - Before and After Newton
Herbert Kasube....................................99
Euler's Solution of the Konigsberg Bridge problem: The Invention
of Graph Theory
Herbert Kasube...................................111
Felix Klein's Erlanger Programm and Its Influence
Donna I. M. Stewart..............................117
Exterior Differential Forms - From Research to Teaching Tool
John Synowiec....................................142
Cauchy and Partial Differential Equations
John Synowiec....................................156
In Search of a Lost Analogy Regarding the Foundations of Calculus
Sandra Visokolskis...............................178
Were the Pythagoreans Illiterate?
Mike Wodzak......................................198
History in the Classroom
A Heuristic Procedure for Bringing History to the Mathematics Classroom
James M. Benedict................................221
Ethics and Mathematics
Randall Crist....................................225
Teaching Mathematics (and History) with Egyptian Fractions
Keven Hansen.....................................313
That Olde Tyme Mathematicks: Archaic Techniques in the Modern Classroom
Jeff A. Suzuki...................................244
Logic
Who is Stephen Cole Kleene?
Murat Atmaca.....................................259
Arthur Schopenhauer and L. D. J. Brouwer, a Comparison
Teun Koetsier....................................277
The Logic of William of Occam: Between Thomas and Tarski
Jim Murdock......................................296
Against Against Intuitionism
Dick Schlimm.....................................303
Invited Address
The Enigma of the Infinitesimal: Toward Charles L. Dodgson's Theory
of Infinitesimals
Francine F. Abeles...............................319