Thursday, September 15, 2022 6:30 pm EDT
Online Event via Zoom
PASHOM will meet virtually on Thursday, September 15, at 6:30 p.m., when Karen Parshall, Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics , University of Virginia, will speak on:
American Mathematicians and World War II
When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, America’s mathematicians had already been bracing themselves for war. This talk will examine the various venues in which they contributed to the war effort and indicate the sorts of contributions they made.