History of Mathematics Summer School

June 27-28 2001

Information about the talks, where available, may be obtained by clicking on the title of the talk.

Wednesday June 27

10:15 John Silvester (King's College) "A Quick Trip Through Some Greek Geometry"

11:45 Jeremy Gray (Open University) "Non-Euclidean Geometry"

1:00 Lunch

2:00 David Robinson (King's College) "Gravity and General Relativity - A Concise History"

3:15 Peter Saunders (King's College) "Fractal Geometry"

Thursday June 28

10:15 June Barrow-Green (Open University) "Poincare and Chaos"

11:30 Larry Landau (King's College) "Quantum Theory: Mathematics and Reality"

12:45 Lunch

2:00 Ray Streater (King's College) "Impossible Equations"

3:15 Wilfrid Hodges (Queen Mary & Westfield) "If Mathematics is a Game, What are the Rules?'