Talks and Lectures
1994-2008


What is the “Birthday” of Elliptic Functions?
Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society & the Sociedade Brasileira de Matemática
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7 June 2008.
Joint Meeting of the Canadian and British Societies for the History of Mathematics
Concordia University, Montreal, 29 July 2007.
Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium
Middlesex University, London, 14 May 2007.

De Morgan in the prehistory of statistical hypothesis testing
Joint Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada & the Société Française de Statistique
Ottawa, Canada, 27 May 2008.

The Life and Legacy of Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871)
Department of Mathematics Colloquium
Temple University, Philadelphia, 9 April 2007.
Meeting of the London Mathematical Society
University College London, 16 June 2006.
Department of Mathematics Colloquium
The Open University, 6 June 2006.
1018th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
San Francisco State University, California, 29 April 2006.
1015th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
Florida International University, Miami, 1 April 2006.

British Mathematics, 1837-1901
Conference on Mathematics in Victorian Britain
Kellogg College, Oxford, 3 June 2006.

“Everybody makes errors”:
A 19th-century mathematical attempt to prove the existence of God
Fall Meeting of the EPa-Del Section of the Mathematical Association of America
Villanova University, 19 November 2005.
Spring Meeting of the MD-DC-VA Section of the Mathematical Association of America
University of Virginia, 2 April 2005.
Smoky Mountain Undergraduate Research Conference on the History of Mathematics
Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 5 February 2005.
Annual Meeting of the Virginia Academy of Science
Virginia Commonwealth University, 27 May 2004.

What’s the use of math anyway?
Annual Conference of the Virginia Council of Teachers of Mathematics
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, 12 March 2005.
Spring Conference of the Greater Richmond Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Chester, Virginia, 16 March 2004.

Decyphering Lewis Carroll’s Obscure Condensation Method for Evaluating Determinants
(with Eve Torrence)
MD-DC-VA Section Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America
Salisbury University, Maryland, 24 April 2004.

Mathematics in the Writings of Lewis Carroll
Department of Mathematics Colloquium
Davidson College, North Carolina, 12 March 2004.
Faculty Research Evening Exchange lecture
Randolph-Macon College, 19 March 2003.

A Work in Progress: Writing the History of the London Mathematical Society
400 Years of British Mathematics
The Open University, 20 January 2004.

Mathematics in the Metropolis: A Survey of Victorian London
Gresham College / British Society for the History of Mathematics Annual Lecture
Gresham College, London, 19 January 2004.

"Everybody makes errors":
The intersection of De Morgan's logic and probability, 1837-1847"
Joint Meeting of the AMS and MAA
Phoenix, Arizona, 9 January 2004.
New York Academy of Sciences
New York, New York, 4 December 2003.

Inexplicable? The status of complex numbers in Britain, 1750-1850
 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Colloquium
Western Carolina University, 26 March 2003.
Frederick V. Pohle Colloquium on the History of Mathematics
New York, 5 March 2003.
965th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 21 April 2001.
Wessel Bicentennial Symposium,
Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Copenhagen, 13 August 1998.

Brought to book: The curious story of Guglielmo Libri
979th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
Boston, Massachusetts, 5 October 2002.

The De Morgan-Libri Friendship: A Study in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Italian Mathematical Relations
First Joint Meeting of the Unione Matematica Italiana and the American Mathematical Society
Università di Pisa, Italy, 13 June 2002.

Vindicating Leibniz in the calculus priority dispute: The role of Augustus De Morgan
Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America
San Diego, California, 9 January 2002.
First Joint Meeting of the Société mathématique de France and the American Mathematical Society
École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, France, 19 July 2001.

G. H. Hardy, the London Mathematical Society,
and the rise of British pure mathematical research in the first half of the 20th century
Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society
Denver, Colorado, 11 November 2001.
Christmas Meeting of the British Society for the History of Mathematics
University College London, 21 December 2000.
958th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
San Francisco State University, California, 21 October 2000.

Mathematics at the University of Virginia, 1825-1900
971st Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
Williams College, Massachusetts, 13 October 2001.
Symposium on the History of Undergraduate Mathematics in America
United States Military Academy, West Point, 23 June 2001.

A gradual innovation:
The introduction of Cauchian calculus into mid-19th-century Britain
MATH 2000,
McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, 11 June 2000.
Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Anaheim, California, 22 January 1999.

Extending Euler: a little known episode in the prehistory of quaternions
951st Meeting of the American Mathematical Society
University of California, Santa Barbara, 11 March 2000.
Joint Meeting of the Canadian and British Societies for the History of Mathematics
University of Toronto, 16 July 1999.

An analytical society? In search of 19th-century British analysts
Joint Meeting of the AMS and MAA
Washington DC, 21 January 2000.

Augustus De Morgan : the forgotten historian
Joint Meeting of the AMS and MAA
San Antonio, Texas, 15 January 1999.

Maximum effort, minimum effect: De Morgan and his Indian protege
Tagung on Mathematics in the Americas and the Far East 1800-1940
Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 20 October 1998.

"Words, words everywhere, nor any drop to drink": experiences of writing-up
Meeting in Honor of David Fowler's 60th Birthday
Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick, 13 April 1997.

Sylvester the Londoner
British Society for the History of Mathematics: Sylvester Centennial Commemoration
University College London, 14 March 1997.

Sylvester's scientific circle
Sylvester Commemorative Meeting
New College, Oxford, 15 March 1997.

Mathematics in Victorian London
History of Science Seminar
Royal Institution, London, 28 October 1996.
British Society for the History of Mathematics Conference on Mathematics in Victorian Britain
Kellogg College, Oxford, 16 September 1995.

Going off on a tangent
British Society for the History of Mathematics: Research in Progress Meeting
Imperial College London, 24 February 1996.

Augustus De Morgan: our first head of department
De Morgan Association Dinner
University College London, 7 June 1995.

De Morgan's mathematics and logic
Faculty of Mathematics Seminar
The Open University, 2 May 1995.

The founding of the London Mathematical Society
Symposium on Networks of communication in the 19th & 20th Centuries
Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, 17 September 1994.


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