Tuesday 9th November 2004

Organised by Jeremy Gray, Eleanor Robson, and Miles Reid.

Mathematics Institute, University of Warwick

(N.B. the new Institute is on the Central Campus)

Reminiscences

PROGRAMME

The talks will be in Mathematics Institute Room B3.03

• 10.00 Coffee and registration

• 11.00 Eleanor Robson (University of Cambridge)
  Influence, ignorance, or indifference? Rethinking the relationship between Babylonian and Greek mathematics

• 12.15 Tree planting which will be at the rear of the Institute

• 12.30 Buffet lunch in the Common Room

• 1.30–1.55 The Coull Quartet will play in the Common Room

• 2.00 Paddy Patterson (University of Göttingen)
  Cyclotomy yesterday and today

• 3.00 Henry Mendell (California State University)
  On early Greek mathematics

• 4.00 Tea

• 4.30 Len Berggren (Simon Fraser University)
  On recent trends in the study of Islamic mathematics

• 6.00–8.00 Memorial party with a buffet dinner