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"Modern Geometry & its Foundations", Vienna (Austria) and/or Virtual

13-15 Jan 2022

The ERC Starting Grant project "The Roots of Mathematical Structuralism" 

(PI: Georg Schiemer; Gnther Eder) and the FWF project "Purity and 

Abstraction in Modern Geometry: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives? 

(PI: Eduardo Giovannini) are co-hosting the conference ?Modern Geometry 

and its Foundations? at the University of Vienna.

https://structuralism.phl.univie.ac.at/events/international-conference-mode
rn-geometry-and-its-foundations/

Date and Venue:
January 13-15, 2022
The conference will be held either in hybrid form or digitally (on zoom).
University of Vienna
Erika Weinzierl Saal
Universittsring 1, 1010 Vienna

Confirmed Speakers:
Andrew Arana (Universit de Lorraine, FRA), John T. Baldwin (University o
f Illinois at Chicago, USA), Joan Bertran-San Milln (University of Lisbo
n, POR), Francesca Biagioli (Universit degli Studi di Torino), Paola Can
t (Aix-Marseille Universit and CNRS), Davide Crippa (Centre for Scien
ce, Technology and Society Studies, CZ), Vincenzo De Risi (Universit Par
is-Diderot ? CNRS, FRA), Walter Dean (University of Warwick, GB), Fiona T. 
Doherty (Bios Centre London, GB), Sbastien Gandon (Blaise Pascal Univers
ity, FRA), Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley, USA), Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto (
California State University, Northridge, USA), Tabea Rohr (Universit de 
Lorraine, FRA), James Tappenden (University of Michigan, USA), Andreas Muel
ler (Independent Scholar, USA)

Program

Day 1 Thursday | January 13, 2022
10:00 ? 10:15 Opening
10:15 ? 11:15 Paola Cant (Aix-Marseille Universit and CNRS, FRA)
?Formalism and Geometry in Peano and Enriques?.
11:15 ? 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 ? 12:30 Joan Bertran-San Milln (University of Lisbon, POR)
?Peano?s geometry: From empirical foundations to abstract development?.
12:30 ? 14:30 Lunch
14:30 ? 15:30 Francesca Biagioli (Universit degli Studi di Torino, ITA)
?Federigo Enriques and Felix Klein on Mathematical Concept Formation?.
15:30 ? 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 ? 16:45 Sbastien Gandon (Blaise Pascal University, FRA)
?Norbert Wiener?s early papers on the foundations of geometry. Axiomatics, 
construction and statistics?.
16:45 ? 17:00 Tea/Coffee
17:00 ? 18:00 Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto (California State University, No
rthridge, USA)
?H.S.M. Coxeter?s Theory of Accessibility as a Catalyst for the Exploration
 of Planes without Continuity and the Work of Mario Pieri in Synthetic Proj
ective Geometry?.

Day 2 Friday | January 14, 2022
10:15 ? 11:15 Vincenzo De Risi (Universit Paris-Diderot ? CNRS, FRA)
?The Discovery of Non-Euclidean Geometry and the Beginnings of Modern Mathe
matics?.
11:15 ? 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 ? 12:30 Davide Crippa (Centre for Science, Technology and Society Stu
dies, CZ)
?Bolzano? Early Research on Elementary Geometry?.
12:30 ? 14:30 Lunch
14:30 ? 15:30 Andrew Arana (Universit de Lorraine, FRA)
?Mathematical hygiene: a case study of Cartesian geometry?.
15:30 ? 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 ? 16:45 Tabea Rohr (Universit de Lorraine, FRA)
?The distinction between analytic and synthetic geometry from an axiomatic 
point of view?.
16:45 ? 17:00 Tea/Coffee
17:00 ? 18:00 James Tappenden (University of Michigan, USA)
?Frege, Contact Transformations and General Duality in 1895-1906?.

Day 3 Saturday | January 15, 2022
10:15 ? 11:15 Paolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley, USA)
?How many points are in a segment? From Grosseteste to the theory of numero
sities?.
11:15 ? 11:30 Tea/Coffee
11:30 ? 12:30 Walter Dean (University of Warwick, GB)
?On geometric consistency from the finitary standpoint?.
12:30 ? 14:30 Lunch
14:30 ? 15:30 Fiona T. Doherty (Bios Centre London, GB)
?Hilbertian structuralism in the philosophy of science?.
15:30 ? 15:45 Tea/Coffee
15:45 ? 16:45 John T. Baldwin (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)
and Andreas Mueller (Independent Scholar, USA)
?Reflections on the DeZolt axiom: Mathematical, Philosophical and Historica
l?.

For participation please send an e-mail to: florian.kolowrat@univie.ac.at
Registration ends on January 10, 2022

For further information, please visit: https://structuralism.phl.univie.ac.
at/
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