calculus

MAA MATHFEST 2015Chronological ScheduleFriday, August 7 (continued)SIGMAA ACTIVITYWeb SIGMAA Guest LectureMYMathApps: Lessons Learned and To-BeLearned5:00 PM – 5:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5SIGMAA ACTIVITYWeb SIGMAA Business Meeting6:00 PM – 6:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5SOCIAL ACTIVITYPi Mu Epsilon Banquet6:00 PM – 7:45 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Virginia A/B/CINVITED ADDRESSPi Mu Epsilon J. Sutherland Frame LectureG-sharp, A-flat, and the Euclidean Algorithm8:00 PM – 8:50 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3Noam Elkies, Harvard UniversitySOCIAL EVENTAlbert’s Bridge: A Tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard,Featuring the MAA Community Players9:00 PM – 10:00 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3Saturday, August 8Registration8:00 AM – 12:30 PM, Marriott Wardman Park, Registration 1/2INVITED ADDRESSMAA James R. C. Leitzel LectureCalculus at Crisis8:30 AM – 9:20 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Salon 2/3David Bressoud, Macalester CollegeTHEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONTCPS#1: The History and Philosophy ofMathematics Part N – History and Philosophy ofMathematics8:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 4Some Original Sources for Modern Tales of Thales8:30 AM – 8:55 AMMichael Molinsky, University of Maine at FarmingtonA Prehistory of Arithmetic9:00 AM – 9:25 AMPatricia Baggett, New Mexico State UniversityAndrzej Ehrenfeucht, University of ColoradoAdelard’s Euclid and the Arabic TransmissionAttributed to al-Hajjaj .9:30 AM – 9:55 AMGregg De Young, The American University in CairoAl-Khwarizmi, Anselm, and the Algebra ofAtonement10:00 AM – 10:25 AMValerie J. Allen, John Jay College, CUNYApproaches to Computation in Third MillenniumMesopotamia10:30 AM – 10:55 AMDuncan J. Melville, St. Lawrence UniversityFamous Mathematicians from Iran but Whom YouMay Not Know11:00 AM – 11:25 AMSamaneh Gholizadeh Hamidi, Brigham Young UniversityThe Quest for Digital Preservation: Will Part ofMath History Be Gone Forever?11:30 AM – 11:55 AMSteve DiDomenico, Northwestern University LibraryLinda Newman, University of Cincinnati LibrariesTHEMED CONTRIBUTED PAPER SESSIONTCPS#1: The History and Philosophy ofMathematics Part P – History and Philosophy ofMathematics8:30 AM – 11:55 AM, Marriott Wardman Park, Washington 5Finding the Roots of a Non-Linear Equation: Historyand Reliability8:30 AM – 8:55 AMRoger Godard, RMCJ. D. Forbes and the Development of Curve Plotting9:00 AM – 9:25 AMIsobel Falconer, University of St Andrews“Remarkable Similarities”: A Dialogue Between DeMorgan & Boole9:30 AM – 9:55 AMGavin Hitchcock, University of Stellenbosch86 Washington, DC | August 5–8, 2015 #MAAthFest