Amy Dahan-Dalmédico

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Amy Dahan (2016)

Amy Dahan-Dalmédico , Amy Dahan, one is French math - and science historian .

Dahan studied mathematics at the Sorbonne until 1979 and received his doctorate in the history of science in 1990 with a thesis on Augustin-Louis Cauchy ( Thèse de doctorat d'état ). She taught at the University of Amiens until 1983, at the École polytechnique from 1988 to 2002 and from 1998 at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS). In 2008 she taught at the Free University of Brussels . From 1995 she was research director of the CNRS for a program on mathematical practices in the 20th century and the interaction of mathematics with culture, technology and other sciences and was co-director of the Center Alexandre Koyré of CNRS and EHESS.

She dealt with the history of mathematical physics and applied mathematics (especially education in France at the end of the 18th and early 19th centuries in the school of the École Polytechnique), history of algebra (group concept), women in mathematics and various mathematicians ( Sophie Germain , Fourier , Laplace , Lagrange , Galois , Augustin-Louis Cauchy , especially his contributions to physics and his role in the creation of the group concept as well as the general environment, Jacques-Louis Lions ), history of mathematics teaching, history of science in World War II and the Cold War and the relationship between politics and mathematics in the 20th century. In addition, she deals with complex systems and chaos theory and especially climate change, on which she has led an interdisciplinary research group since 2002. She looks at aspects of the sociology of science, such as the question of how it is determined that someone is considered an expert by the public, and she deals with the mechanisms of international climate summits.

Her research focuses generally on the 19th and 20th centuries. She wrote a history of mathematics with Jeanne Peiffer , which was also translated into German and English.

Fonts

  • Les travaux de Cauchy sur les Substitutions. Etude de son approche du concept de groupe. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences . Vol. 23, 1980/1981, pp. 279-319, doi : 10.1007 / BF00327913 .
  • with Jeanne Peiffer : Une histoire des mathématiques. Routes et Dédales. Éditions Études vivantes, Paris et al. 1982, ISBN 2-7310-4112-9 (2ième édition. (= Points. Série Sciences. 49). Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1986, ISBN 2-02-009138-0 ).
    • German translation: Paths and wrong ways - a history of mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel et al. 1994, ISBN 3-7643-2561-5 (Reprint. Springer, Basel et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-0348-6176-2 ).
    • English translation: History of Mathematics. Highways and byways. Mathematical Association of America, Washington DC 2010, ISBN 978-0-88385-562-1 .
  • with Jean Dhombres , Rudolph Bkouche, Christian Houzel , Hélène Guillemot: Mathématiques au fil des âges. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-04-016448-0 .
  • Sophie Germain. In: Scientific American . Vol. 265, No. 6, 1991, pp. 116-123, JSTOR 24938838 .
  • as editor with Jean-Luc Chabert, Karine Chemla (ed.): Chaos et déterminisme (= Points. Série Sciences. 80). Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-02-015182-0 .
  • Mathématisations. Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'École francaise. Éditions du Choix et al., Argenteuil et al. 1993, ISBN 2-9090-2810-0 .
  • with Bruno Belhoste , Antoine Picon (eds.): La Formation polytechnicienne, 1794–1994. Dunod, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-10-002060-9 .
  • as editor with Bruno Belhoste, Dominique Pestre, Antoine Picon: La France des X, deux siècles d'histoire. Economica, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7178-2878-8 .
  • as editor with Umberto Bottazzini : Changing Images in Mathematics. From the French Revolution to the New Millennium (= Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine. 13). Routledge, London et al. 2001, ISBN 0-415-27118-5 .
  • as editor with Dominique Pestre: Les sciences pour la guerre. 1940–1960 (= Civilizations et Sociétés. 120). Éditions de l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-7132-2015-7 .
  • as editor with Michel Armatte: Modèles et Modélisations. 1950-2000 (= Revue d'Histoire des Sciences. Vol. 57, No. 2, 2004, (Numéro spécial)). Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-13-055013-4 .
  • Jacques-Louis Lions, un mathématicien d'exception. Entre research, industrie et politique. Éditions La Découverte, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-7071-4709-5 .
  • as editor: Les Modèles du Futur. Changement climatique et scénarios économiques. Enjeux scientifiques et politiques. Éditions La Découverte, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7071-5013-4 .
  • with Stefan C. Aykut: Gouverner le climat? 20 ans de négociations internationales. Presses de Sciences Po, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-7246-1680-4 .

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References and comments

  1. ↑ La méthode critique du “mathématicien-philosophe”. In: Jean Dhombres (ed.): L'École Normale de l'an III. Volume 1: Les leçons de mathématiques. Lagrange - Laplace - Monge. Dunod, Paris 1992, pp. 171-192.
personal data
SURNAME Dahan-Dalmédico, Amy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dahan, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French historian of mathematics and science
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century