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CIMPA-UNSA-UNESCO-EGYPT SCHOOL

History of Mathematics from the Antiquity to the XVIIIth century

Objectives:

The aim of the school is to allow mathematician participants to renew the memory of their science and to see it in a new perspective. For historians of mathemaics and of the sciences, it is to acquaint them with the mathematical activity of periods on which they do not work. The field of the school will be mathematics from Antiquity to the beginning of the XVIIIth century. It has been chosen in order to train research workers about periods the approach of which is difficult (for reasons of language, nature of the texts, etc) and to put the mathematics of these periods in their cultural context.

Scientific committee and lecturers:

A. Ashour (Cairo, Egypt), H. Belosta (Marseille, France), E. Giusti (Firenze, Italy), C. Houzel (Paris 7, France), R. Morelon (CNRS URA 1085, France), R. Rashed (CNRS URA 1085, France and Tokyo, Japan), C. Sazaki (Tokyo, Japan), M. Zerner (Nice, France)

Scientific director:

R. Rashed (CNRS URA 1085, France et Tokyo, Japan)

Working languages :

English and French, Arab.

Date and location:

January 23 - February 7, 1999, Mansurah (Egypt).

Scientific program:

Introduction to the history and the historiography of mathematics. Ancient mathematics and their transmission. Arabic mathematics, their hebrew and latin transmissions. Renewal of mathematics in Europe (end of the XVIth and XVIIth centuries). Consolidation of mathematics and mathematization of physics. Prerequisites: The school is intended for university teachers in mathematics and physics as well as PhD students and postdocs in mathematics and in the history of mathematics of physics.