TUESDAY, 12 JULY 2005
9:00 am: Introductory Remarks by Amir Alexander
9:15 am: Greeting by Theodore Tollis of Thales and Friends
Session 1a: The Mathematician’s Story
9:20 am to 1:00 pm, moderator Mark Turner
Pierre Cartier
Vitae Mathematicae: The Role of Autobiographies from Mathematicians
Doron Zeilberger
Sipur and Mispar in Ibn Ezra’s Sefer HaMispar
Martin Davis
Mathematics and Biography
Theodore M. Porter
Karl Pearson’s Statistical Lives
DISCUSSION
Session 1b: Mathematical Dramas
5:00 pm to 8:15 pm, moderator Barry Mazur
Denis Guedj
The Drama of Mathematics
Barbara Oliver
Mathematics and Narrative – a Happening
DISCUSSION
Alecos Papadatos
Logicomix: A Graphic Novel of Logic and Mathematics
DISCUSSION
WEDNESDAY, 13 JULY 2005
Session 2a: Mathematics as Story
9:00 am to 1:00 pm, moderator John Allen Paulos
Christos Papadimitriou
On Narrative and Computer Programming
Karine Chemla
Mathematical Problems as Narratives: Perspectives from Ancient China
Persi Diaconis
Mathematical Stories and Stories for Mathematics
DISCUSSION
Apostolos Doxiadis
The story of the proof is the proof: early stations in a paramathematical odyssey
Gregory Chaitin
Narratives versus formal axiomatic theories: What is mathematics?
DISCUSSION
Session 2b: Telling Mathematical Stories
5:00 pm to 8:05 pm, moderator M. Norton Wise
Robin J. Wilson
Writing Popular Mathematics Books: How and Why?
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
How our Schools succeed in Blotting out Children’s Natural Gift for Mathematics
Timothy Gowers
Describing mathematical proofs without losing the plot
DISCUSSION
Marcus du Sautoy
The Music of the Primes
DISCUSSION
THURSDAY, 14 JULY 2005
Session 3a: Changing Stories, Changing Mathematics
9:00 am to 1:10 pm, moderator Ted Porter
Brian Rotman
Gesture in the Head
Amir Alexander
From Heroes to Martyrs: Changing Stories and Changing Practices in Modern Mathematics
DISCUSSION
COFFEE BREAK (15 minutes)
Mary Terrall
Mathematics in Narrative: 18th Century Scientific Expeditions
John Allen Paulos
Stories and Statistics, Numbers and Narratives
Joan L. Richards
Historical narrative and Enlightened Mathematics
DISCUSSION
Session 3b: Making Mathematical Stories
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, moderator Joan L. Richards
Rebecca Goldstein
Mathematicians as Characters
DISCUSSION
COFFEE BREAK (15 minutes)
John D. Barrow
Infinities and Beyond
DISCUSSION
FRIDAY, 15 JULY 2005
Session 4a: Stories in Mathematical Creativity
9:00 am to 1:10 pm, moderator Christos Papadimitriou
Leo Corry
Calculating the Limits of Poetic License: Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
Martin Krieger
The Work of Mathematical Research
Barry Mazur
Eureka and Other Stories
DISCUSSION
Mark Turner
The Role of Narrative Imagining in Blended Mathematical Concepts
David Corfield
The Role of Narrative in Mathematical Inquiry
M. Norton Wise
How Fourier Analysis Became Rigorous, or How Functions became Curves: A Dirichlet Narrative
DISCUSSION
Session 4b: Conclusion
5:00 pm to 8:00 pm, moderator Robert Osserman
Robert Osserman
The Right Spin: Spinning Mathematics by Spinning a Yarn
Apostolos Doxiadis
Summary
Open Discussion
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