Stanford-Paris Workshop in the History and Philosophy of Diagrams in Mathematics

Location for all three days, Classics Building 110-1110

 

Program

 

Thursday 10/4

 

Morning Session: History of diagrams as artifacts (chair: Paula Findlen)

 

9:30 Ken Saito

The Diagrams in the Manuscripts of Euclid's Elements

10:30 Gregg De Young

Mathematical Diagrams:  From Manuscript into Print

11:30 Reviel Netz

Greek Mathematical Diagrams in the Context of Scribal Practice

 

Afternoon Session: Modern Logical Developments (chair: Sol Feferman)

 

14:00 Brice Halimi

Diagrams as Sketches, Sketches as Theories

15:00 Sun-Joo Shin

Carving-up Principle in Diagrammatic Reasoning

 

Friday 10/5

 

Diagrams in EuclidÕs Elements: Philosophical Reflections

 

Morning Session (chair: Katherine Dunlop)

 

09:30 John Mumma

Ensuring Generality in Formalizations of EuclidÕs Diagrammatic Arguments

10:30 Ken Manders

Diagrams in Euclidean Geometry: Reductio and the Opponent.

11:30 David Rabouin

Proclos on Diagrams

 

Afternoon Session (chair: Michael Friedman)

 

14:00 Danielle Macbeth

Diagrammatic Reasoning in Euclid's Elements

15:00 Marco Panza

The Double Role of Diagrams in EuclidÕs Elements

 

Saturday 10/6

 

After Euclid

 

Morning Session: The 19th Century (chair: Karine Chemla)

 

10:00 SŽbastien Gandon

From Figures to Forms: Pasch on the use of diagram in projective geometry

11:00 Ivahn Smadja

The Fruitfulness of Ambiguity: The Use of Lattice Diagrams in the 19th Century Number Theory

 

Afternoon Session: Early Modern (chair: Reviel Netz)

 

13:30 Katherine Dunlop

J. H. Lambert on Certainty and the Existence of Models

14:30 Paolo Palmieri

Diagrams in Motion: GalileoÕs search for Mathematical Proofs