Joseph W. Dauben

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Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American science and mathematics historian.

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Dauben studied at Claremont McKenna College (bachelor's degree) and Harvard University , where he received his doctorate in 1972 with Dirk Struik ("The early development of Cantorian Set Theory") and where he was a tutor from 1967 to 1972.

From 1972 he was assistant professor, from 1977 associate professor and in 1981 professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York (and member of the Ph.D. program of the Graduate Center of CUNY in the field of history).

He was also visiting professor at New York University (1989–1993), Oberlin College (1980), Columbia University (1979–1980, 1982–1985), Tsinghua University (1991) and Shi Fan University ( 1995) in Taiwan , at the Institute for the History of Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing (where he has been an honorary professor since 2002) and he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1977/78 . For ten years from 1978 onwards he was the editor of the Historia Mathematica and chairman of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics. From 1997 to 1999 he was Chairman of the Philosophy and History of Science Section of the New York Academy of Sciences, of which he is a member. He was also visiting professor of the history of botany at the New York Botanical Gardens. He has been a member of the Leopoldina since 2001 . In 1986 he was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year at Lehman College. He was a Guggenheim Fellow .

He was busy u. a. with Georg Cantor , Charles S. Peirce and Abraham Robinson and with Chinese history of science.

In 1998 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( Marx, Mao and Mathematics: the politics of infinitesimals ). In 2012 he received the Albert Leon Whiteman Prize from the AMS.

Fonts

  • Chinese Mathematics. In: Victor Katz (Ed.) The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam. A sourcebook. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-11485-9 , pp. 187-384.
  • as editor with Christoph Scriba : Writing the history of mathematics. Its historical development (= Science Networks, historical Studies. Vol. 27). Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7643-6167-0 .
  • Abraham Robinson. The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis. A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1995, ISBN 0-691-03745-0 .
  • Georg Cantor. His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite. Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA et al. 1979, ISBN 0-674-34871-0 (Also: Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1990, ISBN 0-691-08583-8 ).
  • The development of Cantorian set theory. In: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Ed.): From the Calculus to Set Theory. 1630-1910. An Introductory History. Duckworths, London 1980, ISBN 0-7156-1295-6 , pp. 181-219.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Whiteman Prize to Dauben, Notices AMS, April 2012, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Dauben, Joseph W.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dauben, Joseph Warren (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science and math
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica