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Schedule of Meetings

December 11, 2008. Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, "Edward V. Huntington and Engineering Education."

January 15, 2009. Yibao Xu

February 19, 2009. Paul Wolfson, West Chester University.

March 19, 2009. Marina Vulis, Independent Scholar. "Russian Mathematics Textbooks."

April 16, 2009.  John Bukowski, Juniata College, "Christiaan Huygens and the Hanging Chain."


December 11, 2008. Thomas L. Bartlow, Villanova University, "Edward V. Huntington and Engineering Education."
Abstract: Edward V. Huntington is best known as a prototypical American postulate theorist (Michael Scanlon, Who were the American Postulate Theorists?, The Journal of Symbolic Logic 56:3 (Sep 1991), 981--1002) and as the mathematician behind the method of apportioning Representatives among the states (Thomas L. Bartlow, Mathematics and Politics: Edward V. Huntington and the Apportionment of the United States Congress, Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics 19 (2006), 29--54). However, much of his teaching was in the Lawrence Scientific School at Harvard and, in 1907, he became chairman of the Committee on the Teaching of Mathematics to Students of Engineering, a joint committee of the AMS and the AAAS. This led him to become involved in the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education and to write several papers on mathematics and mechanics in the training of engineers.