Euclidean Geometry in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Programme

Thursday 1 October
9.30-9.45	Registration
9.45-11.00	Professor Marilyn Gaull (The Editorial Institute, Boston University) More Fearful Symmetries
11.00-11.30	Coffee break
11.30-12.45	Dr Melanie Bayley (University of Oxford) ‘If any one can explain it,’ said Alice, ‘I’ll give him sixpence’: Algebraic Geometry and the Mathematics of Nonsense in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
12.45-13.45	Lunch
13.45-15.00	Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge) Lewis Carroll: Playing Football with Euclid
15.00-15.30	Tea break
15.30-16.45	Professor Joan L. Richards (Brown University) From the Logic of Geometry to the Geometry of Logic: Augustus De Morgan Confronts Euclid
16.45-18.00	Professor Robin Wilson (Open University) Charles Dodgson and Thomas Hirst
18.00-19.00	Reception at CRASSH
19.30	Dinner for speakers

Friday 2 October
9.30 - 10.45	Mr Frank Albo (University of Cambridge) Gothic Proportions in the 1840s
10.45-11.15	Coffee Break
11.15-12.30	Professor Jeremy Gray (Open University) The Overthrow of Euclidean Geometry
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 14.45	Professor Linda Henderson (University of Texas at Austin) The Fourth Dimension in 20th-Century Art and Culture
14.45	Tea and close