Publications
Pritchard, Kailyn. (2023). An analysis of the text and tables in Georg Joachim Rheticus’ Canon doctrinae triangulorum [Master’s thesis, Simon Fraser Univerity].
Master’s Thesis available here.
Pritchard, Kailyn. (2022). Determining the Sine Tables Underlying Early European Tangent Tables. In Matthieu Husson, Clemency Montelle, Benno van Dalen (eds.), Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables: Towards a Digital Information System for the Astral Sciences, Turnhout: Brepols.
Supplemental materials available here.
Pritchard, Kailyn. (2019). The Emergence of the Tangent Function in European Trigonometry [Unpublished undergraduate senior thesis, Quest University Canada].
Conferences and presentations
Mathematics Education Doctoral Students Conference — November 2024
Annual Meeting
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
“Numeracy, Quantitative Reasoning and Mathematics”
National Numeracy Network — November 2024
Annual Meeting
George Brown College, Toronto, ON
“Numeracy in BC Schools.”
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics — May 2023
Annual Meeting, General Session
York University, Toronto, ON
“Bringing Triangles to Trigonometry: Georg Rheticus and his Canon Doctrinae Triangulorum.”
Master’s Thesis Defence — April 2023
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC
“Bringing Triangles to Trigonometry: Georg Rheticus and his Canon Doctrinae Triangulorum.”
Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics — June 2019
Annual Meeting, Special Session: Mathematical Astronomy
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”
Keystone Symposium — May 2019
Quest University Canada, Squamish, BC
“The Birth of the Tangent.”
Video available here.
BC Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics Conference — April 2019
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”
PAL & ALFA Workshop 2018— November 2018
Pre-Modern Astronomical and Astrological Data in Tabular Form:
Storage, Edition and Mathematical Analysis
Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Munich, Germany
“Determining the sine tables underlying early European tangent tables.”