[OLDENBURG] Reminder: Tunstall Conference, 9-10 Sept, Durham

[Isobel Falconer]

'Reappraising the 'Art of Counting'
Durham University, 9-10 September

Registration has opened for the Reappraising the 'Art of Counting' international symposium at Durham University 9-10 September, which commemorates the 500th anniversary of Cuthbert Tunstall's 'De arte supputandi libri quattuor' the first book devoted exclusively to mathematics to have been printed in England. The meeting is organised by the British Society for the History of Mathematics and Durham University.

Register by 10 August if you would like accommodation included: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-of-counting-tunstalls-de-arte-supputandi-libri-quattuor-tickets-383071175197

Non-residential registration closes 2 September.


The programme begins with lunch and a visit to the Tunstall exhibition at the Castle, includes a public lecture by Travis Williams on Friday evening, and finishes with an optional visit to the rare mathematics books in the Ushaw Library just outside Durham on Saturday afternoon.


Speakers and titles:

Satyanad Kichenassamy (Reims), Tunstall, Pacioli, and Tartaglia's English connections: facts and perspectives

Harald Gropp (Heidelberg), The earliest printed math books in Continental Europe

Eleonora Sammarchi (ETH Zurich), Mathematics during the Renaissance: language, concepts and social factors. The case study of Luca Pacioli’s Summa (1494)
Public Lecture: Travis Williams (Rhode Island), Tunstall’s Eloquent Arithmetic: Renaissance Mathematics as Pleasure Reading


Saturday

Deborah Kent (St Andrews), Mysteries in the margins: Annotations in De arte supputandi

Stefano Gulizia (Milan), ‘Illa […] insula volvit Aristotelem’: Anglo-Italian exchanges, Paduan Aristotelians, and Tunstall’s mathematics

Thomas Henderson (Durham), Before Tunstall: Arithmetic in England from the eleventh century to 1522

Fenny Smith (Independent), "...Ciceronian eloquence is fine, but not suitable for those who don't understand Latin." The earliest printed arithmetics in English

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