HOM-SIGMAA is the History of Mathematics Special Interest Group of the MAA. For more links and resources, see the menu the upper right of this page or choose from the links below:
The September 2024 HOM-SIGMAA newsletter is now available. You can read it here. You can find an archive of newsletters here.
We have our winners for the 2024 HOM SIGMAA Student Paper Contest. The papers will be published on Convergence here later this summer. The First Place winner is Mithra Karamchedu of Harvey Mudd College, with “A Mind, a Machine, and a Game in Between (about Claude Shannon).” The Second Place winner is Y. Shane Wang of University of Toronto, with “Theories on the Origins of the Sexagesimal System.” Honorable Mentions are also given to David Forson of University of Missouri-KC, with “Sangaku: The Mathematical Art of the Edo Period,” and David Freeman of Lee University, with “Deconstructing Descartes: An Analysis of the Mathematical Influences Descartes’ Philosophy.”
July 1–5, 2024: HPM 2024: International Study Group on the Relations Between the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics (HPM), Sydney, Australia. HPM 2024 is the eleventh quadrennial meeting of the HPM group, an affiliated study group of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction, ICMI. The program includes plenary lectures, panels, workshops, parallel sessions where participants present research reports, poster exhibitions, and exhibitions of books and other didactical material. Proposals for contributed talks, workshops and posters are due by the extended deadline of March 15, 2024, using the application form posted on the meeting website. For further information, see also the Second Announcement or contact Snezana Lawrence.
The February 2024 HOM-SIGMAA newsletter is now available. You can read it here. You can find an archive of newsletters here.
The September 2023 HOM-SIGMAA newsletter is now available. You can read it here.
MathFest 2023 History of Mathematics Talks and Sessions There are many events at this year’s MathFest in Tampa, FL, related to History of Mathematics! You can find a complete list here.
HOM-SIGMAA is pleased to announce its twenty-first annual Student Paper Contest in the History of Mathematics. The submission deadline is Friday, April 30, 2024. You can find the flyer here. Submissions and questions can be directed to Dr. Amy Shell-Gellasch (ashellge@emich.edu). This contest is open to all undergraduate students. (Students who have graduated less than a year ago but wrote their paper while still an undergraduate may also participate. Graduate and high school students may also submit for an honorable mention.)
HOM-SIGMAA is pleased to announce the first annual Al-Khwarizmi Student Paper Contest. The submission deadline is November 17, 2023. You can find the flyer here. Submissions and questions can be directed to Dr. AbdelNaser Al-Hasan (naser.alhasan@newberry.edu) or Dr. Noah Aydin (aydinn@kenyon.edu).
We have our winner for the 2023 HOM SIGMAA Student Paper Contest. The paper has been published on Convergence here. The First Place winner is Adin Tinsley of Stoney Brook University, with “Nicole Oresme and the Revival of Medieval Mathematics.”
The February 2023 HOM-SIGMAA newsletter is now available. You can read it here. You can find an archive of newsletters here.
HOM-SIGMAA is pleased to announce its twentieth annual Student Paper Contest in the History of Mathematics. The submission deadline is Friday, April 30, 2023. You can find the flyer here. Submissions and questions can be directed to Dr. Amy Shell-Gellasch (ashellge@emich.edu). This contest is open to all undergraduate students. (Students who have graduated less than a year ago but wrote their paper while still an undergraduate may also participate. Graduate and high school students may also submit for an honorable mention.)
The September 2022 HOM-SIGMAA newsletter is now available. You can read it here.
The 43rd meeting of the ORESME Reading Group will be held on Friday-Saturday, September 16-17, 2022, at Xavier University. Our focus this time is the work of Emil Artin (1898-1962), the Austrian-born algebraist who studied at Göttingen with Emmy Noether and Helmut Hasse, fled from Nazi persecution to the US in the 1930s, guided the dissertations of Serge Lang, John Tate and Tim O’Meara at Princeton in the early 1950s, and in 1958 returned to his professorship at Hamburg, where he worked with other doctoral students, including Hans Zassenhaus and Max Zorn. Longtime ORESMEistes will recall the recent meeting at which we studied work of Emmy Noether on the ascending chain condition for ideals; this meeting is a natural follow-up, focusing on the descending chain condition. Main Reading: Chapters II, IV & V of Rings With Minimum Condition, by Artin, Cecil J. Nesbitt and Robert M. Thrall (U of Mich Press, 1946) Additional references: Della Dumbaugh & Joachim Schwerner. Creating a Life: Emil Artin in America. Bull. AMS 50, 2 (2013), 321–330. Richard Brauer. Emil Artin. Bull. AMS 73 (1967), 27–43. Note: The three readings are available through the EXHIBIT database (www.exhibit.xavier.edu), a system we have used in the past. If you have used it before, then just navigate from this front page to Journals, Publications, Conferences, and Proceedings and you’ll find our database there. If not, then you’ll need to set up an account
The first talk in this year’s HOM-SIGMAA Virtual Speaker Series will be held on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. For more details, see HOM-SIGMAA Virtual Speaker Series.
The 2022 Annual HOM-SIGMAA Business Meeting was held on August 4, 2022, at MathFest in Philadelphia, PA: Minutes