Events for September 18, 2008
September 18, 2008
Terry Christensen, Oregon State University
Miranda Paton, Cornell University
Brown Bag Lunch with Presentations by PACHS Dissertation Research Fellows
Philadelphia Area Center for History of Science | Visit site »
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.
Place: American Philosophical Society Library
105 South Fifth Street
Two PACHS Fellows will report on dissertation research carried out in several Philadelphia area archives and libraries. Terry Christensen (Oregon State University) will discuss “John Archibald Wheeler: A Study in the Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Politics of 20th-Century Physics.” Miranda Paton (Cornell University) will discuss “Henry Fairfield Osborn, Ernst Mayr and the Synthesis of Biology: The Utility of a ‘silly, pompous, conceited old man’ .”
September 18, 2008
Patricia Kenschaft, Montclair State University
“Minority Mathematicians”
Philadelphia Area Seminar on the History of Mathematics (PASHoM) | Visit site »
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Place: Villanova University
A summary of some of the known facts about minority participation in the mathematical community, including some biographies, some statistical information, and a report of a survey of black mathematicians of New Jersey twenty years ago.