This will be a one-day conference for both combinatorialists and historians of mathematics. The audience is expected to range from historians who know no combinatorics to combinatorialists who know no history.
10.25 Welcome
10.30 Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin):
Renaissance combinatorics
11.15 Anthony Edwards (Cambridge): Myths
about Pascal's triangle
11.45 Keith Lloyd (Southampton): The life
and work of J. Howard Redfield
12.15 Lunch
1.15 OU Film: Four colours suffice
1.45 Terry Griggs (Open University): Thomas
Kirkman
2.15 Ian Anderson (Glasgow): The Anstice
mystery
2.45 Harald Gropp (Heidelberg): History of
configurations
3.30 Tea
4.00 Norman Biggs (London): Finite
geometries
4.30 David Singmaster (London): Recreational
combinatorics
5.00 End
Further details of the meeting may be obtained from the BSHM Website (http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/), or The Pure Mathematics Secretary, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, or from the OU Pure Mathematics Website. There is no registration fee. It would be helpful if those planning to attend could inform Dr Robin J. Wilson (r.j.wilson@open.ac.uk) or the Pure Mathematics Secretary (t.m.cokayne@open.ac.uk).
This meeting has been made possible thanks to generous financial assistance from the London Mathematical Society and the British Combinatorial Committee.
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