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Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática
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National Seminar for the History of Mathematics

The Practice of Mathematics in Portugal

Conference integrated in the celebrations of the
World Mathematical Year

Óbidos, 16-18 November 2000
Auditório da Casa da Música

Conference program

Historical studies on Science have developed considerably in the last decades. The number of subjects and personalities studied has increased substantially, and historiographic techniques have become more demanding and sophisticated.

In Portugal, however, the impact of this greater maturity in scientific historiography has not been felt much. There have been and continue to be isolated cases of people doing good quality work, but, in general, portuguese scientific historiography remains under the influence of views proposed at the beginning of the century. (One exception is the history of navigation.)

The result of this state of affairs is that Portugal's scientific history (in particular in Mathematics) is still not well known. This is even more worrisome as several foreign scholars have been doing very interesting work concerning the understanding of portuguese reality, but this work remains generally unknown in our country.

The main purpose of this conference is to gather reputed international experts and several portuguese scholars, so that recent work on the History of Mathematics can be presented, in particular about Portugal.

Speakers

Ugo Baldini (Rome)
Victor Navarro Brotóns (Valencia)
Carlos Ziller Camenietzki (Rio de Janeiro)
José Chabás (Barcelona)
Francisco Contente Domingues (Lisbon)
António Freitas (London)
Bernard Goldstein (Pittsburgh)
Eberhard Knobloch (Berlin)
Henrique Leitão (Lisbon)
Eduardo Ortiz (Londres)
João Filipe Queiró (Coimbra)
Patricia Radelet (Louvain)
A. Estácio dos Reis (Lisbon)
José Francisco Rodrigues (Lisbon)
Luís Saraiva (Lisbon)
Edith D. Sylla (Raleigh)

Notes

Registration fees (currency: PTE):
General: 10 000$00 (before 15/10: 8 000$00)
SPM members: 7 000$00 (before 15/10: 5 000$00)
Members of Soc. Port. Estatística: 8 000$00 (before 15/10: 6 000$00)
Student SPM members: 2 000$00 (before 15/10: 1 500$00)
Students not members of SPM 3 500$00 (before 15/10: 3 000$00)

Lodging at Óbidos

All prices include breakfast except where otherwise specified.

Pousada do Castelo **** (9 rooms)
Paço Real
Phone 262412491 / Fax 262413143
Single room 24.600$00
Double room 26.600$00

Estalagem do Convento **** (31 rooms)
Rua João d'Ornelas
Phone 262959214 / Fax 262959159
Single room 13.900$00
Double room 16.200$00

Albergaria Josefa de Óbidos **** (34 rooms)
Rua João d'Ornelas
Phone 262959228 / Fax 262959533
Single room 6.800$00
Double room 8.800$00

Albergaria Raínha Santa Isabel **** (20 rooms)
Rua Direita
Phone 262959323 / Fax 262959115
Single room 9.500$00-11.000$00
Double room 11.000$00-14.000$00

Hotel Mansão da Torre *** (41 rooms)
Casal do Zambujeiro
Phone 262959247 / Fax 262959051
Single room 9.500$00
Double room 12.000$00

Pensão Martim de Freitas** (6 rooms)
Estrada nacional nº 8
Closed for repairs.

Hospedaria Louro (17 rooms)
Casal da Canastra
Phone 262959560/Fax 262959560
Single room 4.000$00-5.000$00
Double room 5.500$00-7.500$00

Hospedaria Casa da Raposeira (7 rooms)
Rua 1, Porta 11, Bairro da Raposeira
Phone 262959662
Single or double room - 5.000$00 a 6.000$00

Hospedaria Oblar (5 rooms)
Urbanização de S. José, Lote 21, J
Single or double room - 7.500$00

Organizing committee

Luís Saraiva (University of Lisbon), chairman
Henrique Leitão (University of Lisbon)
José Francisco Rodrigues (University of Lisbon)
João Filipe Queiró (University of Coimbra)
Carlos Sá (University of Oporto)

Secretariat

Mónica Lovon
pmp@lmc.fc.ul.pt
CMAF-UL
Av. Prof. Gama Pinto, 2
P-1649-003 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: +351 217904862 · Fax: +351 217954288

Supported by

Câmara Municipal de Óbidos
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Centro de Matemática e Aplicacoes Fundamentais
Departamento de Matemática da University of Coimbra
Center for Mathematics, University of Coimbra
Center for Mathematics, University of Oporto
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Luso-American Development Foundation