Symposium on the History of Modern Mathematics; June 13-17, 1988; Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

这次关于现代数学历史的研讨会将汇集来自8个国家的30位主要权威，他们将发表关于19世纪和20世纪初数学各个方面的论文。研讨会的组织有三个基本原则：1)它的计划反映了学者们最近所采取的方法的多样性，他们写了关于这个时代数学文化的各个方面；2)强调具有时代特色的主题，使节目具有主题统一性；3)特别强调与纯数学和应用数学之间的紧张关系有关的问题，以及揭示数学与其他科学学科之间关系的问题。考虑到这些原则，研讨会将分八个部分讨论以下主题：1)法国和德国的数学机构及其在促进应用中的作用；2)数学与物理的关系；3)数学基础；4)复变量理论；5) Klein's Erlangen Program精神下的几何；7)代数与数论；8)对美国数学的形成影响。

This symposium on the history of modern mathematics will bring together thirty leading authorities from eight countries who will present papers on various aspects of 19th and early 20th century mathematics. The symposium has been organized with three underlying principles in mind: 1) that its program reflect the diversity of approaches recently taken by scholars who have written about various aspects of the era's mathematical culture; 2) that certain topics characteristic of the period be emphasized so as to give the program thematic unity; and 3) that particular emphasis be placed on issues pertaining to the tension between pure and applied mathematics, and to matters that shed some light on the relationships between mathematics and other scientific disciplines. With these principles in mind, the symposium will address the following themes in eight separate sessions: 1) Mathematical Institutions in France and Germany and their Role in Promoting Applications; 2) Relationships between Mathematics and Physics; 3) Foundations of Mathematics; 4) Complex Variable Theory; 5) Geometry in the Spirit of Klein's Erlangen Program; 7) Algebra and Number Theory; and 8) Formative Influences on Mathematics in the United States.