List of Invited Speakers at the Tokyo History of Mathematics Symposium 1990

l. Liliane BEAULIEU, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Case postale 8888, suc­cursale A, Montreal (Quebec), H3C 3P8 Canada

2. Umberto BOTTAZZINI, University of Bologna, Department of Mathematics, Via Plutarco 12, 20145 Milan, Italy

3. Joseph W. DAUBEN, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York, Ph. D. Program in History/Box 505, Graduate Center: 33 West 42 Street, New York, NY 10036-8099, usA 4. Chandler DAVIS, University of Toronto, Department of Mathematics, Toronto M5S lAl, Canada

5. DU Shi Ran, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Academia Sinica, 137 Chao Nei Avenue, Beijing, People's Republic of China; Buddist College, 96 Hananobo-cho, Murasakino-kita, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603, Japan

6. William J. ELLISON, Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ondes-MaW:)re, Ecole N ationale Superieure de Chimie et de Physique de Bordeaux, U niversite de Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux, France

7. Craig G. FRASER, University of Toronto, Institute for the History and Philos­ophy of Science and Technology, Room 316, Victoria College, Toronto, M5S lK7 Canada

8. Gunther FREI, Mathematik, Eidgenosische Technische Hochschule Zurich, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland

9. Jeremy GRAY, Open University, Faculty of Mathematics, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, England

10. HARA Kokiti, 2-5-18, Asahigaoka, Ikeda 563, Japan

1l. Annick HORIUCHI, 69, rue Dunois, 75646, Paris, France

12. Christian HOUZEL, Comite national fran<;ais des mathematiciens, 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie, Institut Henri-Poincare, 75231 Paris, France

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13. Eberhard KNOBLOCH, Technische Universitiit Berlin, Institut fur Philoso­phie, Wissenschafttheorie, Wissenschafts- u. Technikgeschichte, Sekr. TEL 2. Ernst­Reuter-Platz 7, D-1000 Berlin 10, Germany

14. Jesper LUTZEN, K0benhavns Universitets Matematiske Institut, Universitets­parken 5, 2100 K0benhavn 0, Denmark

15. NAGAOKA Ryosuke, Daito Bunka University, Faculty of Jurisprudence, 1-9-1, Takashimadaira, Itabashi-ku, Tokyo 175, Japan

16. Erwin NEUENSCHWANDER, Universitiit Zurich, Mathematisches Institut, Riimistrasse 74, CH-8001 Zurich, Switzerland

17. Roshdi RASHED, REHSEIS, CNRS, 27, rue Damesme, 75013 Paris, France

18. David E. ROWE, Pace University, Department of Mathematics, 861 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, New York 10570-2799, USA

19. Erhard SCHOLZ, Bergische Universitiit, Gesamthochschule Wuppertal, Gauss­Strasse 20, Postfach 100127, 5600 Wuppertal 1, Germany

20. SASAKI Chikara, University of Tokyo, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, 3-8-1, Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153, Japan

21. SUGIURA Mitsuo, Tsuda College, Department of Mathematics, 2-1-1, Tsuda­cho, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo 187, Japan

22. TAKASE Masahito, Kyushu University, Department of Mathematics, 6-10-1, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812, Japan

List of Speakers and Titles of Their Lectures at Sesssion B (Short Communications)

August 31

Ito Yoshihiko (Japan), On the Process of the Change of Education for Differential and Integral Curriculum in Japan

N akane Michiyo (J apan), The Role of Mathematical Analogy Played in the Optical­Mechanical Research by W. R. Hamilton

Hoshida Haruyo (Japan), Fourier's View on the Role of Mathematical Analysis in the Physical Science

Murata Tamotsu (Japan), A Tentative Reconstruction of the Formation Process of the Xth Book of the Elements

September 1

Joran Friberg (Sweden), New Insights into the Nature of Late Babylonian Math­ematics: Unpublished Texts from the Iraq Museum and the British Meseum

Simizu Tatsuo (Japan), Ruan Yuan and Endo Toshisada, Founders of History of Mathematics in China and Japan

Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (Brazil), The Emergence of Modern Mathematics in Brazil from the Middle of the Nineteenth Century to the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century

Hirano Yoichi (Japan), Le developpement de l'algebre en France au 1geme siecle

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