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HM 15 MEETINGS 83 

Symposium on “ ‘Style’ as a Category of the History and 
Philosophy of Science” 

Brakel, Federal Republic of Germany, June 17-19, 1987 

By Michael Otte 

A symposium on “ ‘Style’ as a Category of the History and Philosophy of 
Science” was organized by Michael Otte, Universitat Bielefeld, Institut fur Di- 
daktik der Mathematik. The following papers were given: 

K. BAYERTZ: 

A. DAHAN: 

J. DHOMBRES: 
A. DRESS: 

D. ~.ENGELHARDT: 
D. FLAMENT: 

J. GOLINSKI: 
G.G.GRANGER: 
I. GRATTAN-GUINNESS: 

M. DEGUZMANN: 
G. ISRAEL: 

H.N. JAHNKE: 

W. KROHN: 

P. LAMANDE: 

A.G. MOLLAND: 

G. MYERS: 

M. OTTE: 
E. SCHOLZ: 

K. VOLKERT: 

M. ZERNER: 

“The Style of Evolutionary Thought-a Comparative 
Analysis” 
“Is the Concept of the Style Relevant to Mathematical 
Physics?” 
“The Axiomatic Style” 
“The Justification of Racism by the Discussion of Mat- 
ters of Style in Bieberbach’s Deutsche Mathematik” 
“Style in the History of Medicine” 
“Certain Aspects of the Mathematical Style of Sir W. 
R. Hamilton” 
“Language, Discourse and Science-an Overview” 
“Structure and Style” 
“Algebra versus Geometry versus Analysis . . . 1800- 
1830” 
“Aesthetical Aspects of Mathematical Activity” 
“How to Recognize Mathematical Style in Economical 
Discourse” 
“On the Cultural Image of Mathematics in Late 18th 
Century Germany” 
“Ludwik Fleck: Styles of Thought and Scientific 
Facts” 
“Style in Mathematics French Textbooks at the End of 
the 18th Century” 
“The Denominative Style in Medieval Pure and Ap- 
plied Mathematics” 
“Breaking the Rules, Conventional and Unconven- 
tional Styles in Molecular Genetics Articles” 
“Style and Method” 
“Different Approaches to Mathematization of Applied 
Fields: The Case of Dual Diagrams in 19th Century 
Graphical Statics” 
“On the Relationship between Style, Teaching and 
Foundations of the Calculus in Some Treatises of the 
18th Century” 
“Worrying about Style in Mathematics” 



a4 MEETINGS HM 1.5 

The Fourth International Symposium on the History 
of Arabic Science 

Aleppo University, April 21-26, 1987 

The symposium was organized by the University of Aleppo, Institute for the 
History of Arabic Science, in collaboration with the Arab League for Education, 
Culture, and Science, Institute for Arabic Manuscripts. 

The following conferences were included: 

A. ALLARD (Belgium): “L’heritage de la science arabe dans I’occident latin par 
les nouvelles versions de l’arithmetique d’Al-Khwarizmi” 

P. LETTINCK (Holland): “Problems in Aristotle’s Physics” 
E. M. BRUINS (Holland): “Ptolemaic and Plamric Trigonometry and the Problem 

of the Gifla” 
A. B. TAHEEN (Pakistan): “Arab Contribution to Mathematical Sciences” 
I. CARRO (Syria): “The Paradox of the Infinity by Al-Kindi”