Suite à un précédent billet annonçant l’argumentaire d’un programme de ‘workshop’ réunissant plusieurs des collaborateurs du projet “séries de problèmes”, voici le programme définitif de cette manifestation organisée par le département d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences (MIThe) de l’université d’Athènes, et du côté français soutenue par le centre A. Koyré et par le GDR “histoire des mathématiques”.

International workshop

Comparing mathematical texts (commentaries, series of problems etc.) from antiquity to early modern times: how and for what purpose?

October 11-12, 2014

Department of History & Philosophy of Science (MIThE), University of Athens

 

Saturday 11

09:00–10:30 Ioanna Skoura: «Theon’s way of multiplying sexagesimal fractions: an inspiration from Diophantus’ Arithmetica».

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Giovanna Cifoletti: «Jean Borrel, problèmes mathématiques et professions»

12:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:30 Dora Touliatou: «Comparing problems from Heron’s Metrica with problems from the pseudo-Heronian Geometrica».

17:30–18:00 Break

18:00–19:30 Michalis Sialaros: «Revisiting ‘geometrical algebra’: a parallel examination of the extant demonstrations of Elem.2-10»

21:00 Dinner

 

Sunday 12

09:00–10:30 Jean-Marie Coquard: «Between arts and science, Stevin’s and Bombelli’s pedagogical use of Diophantus».

10:30–11:00 Break

11:00–12:30 Jeffrey Oaks: «Comparing two Arabic texts from the second half of the ninth century: Qustā ibn Lūqā on double false position and Thābit ibn Qurra on algebra»

12:30–16:00 Break

16:00–17:30 Alain Bernard: «Can the solutions of the arithmetical problems in Diophantus’  Arithmetica be read as series of paraphraseis in the rhetorical sense of the term?»

17:30–18:00 Break

18:00–19:30 Athanasia Megremi, Jean Christianidis: «Reading Diophantus in Constantinople at the end of the 13th century: Georgios Pachymeres and Maximos Planudes»

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