Antoni Malet

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Antoni Malet (born February 23, 1950 ) is a Spanish mathematician. He is Professor of the History of Science at the Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona .

Antoni Malet (left) with Karine Chemla (center) and Eberhard Knobloch (right), Oberwolfach 2009

Malet received his doctorate in 1989 from Princeton University under Charles Gillispie ( Studies on James Gregory (1638–1675) ).

His research focuses on mathematics and optics in the early modern period and on Spanish science in the time of the Franco regime and the Spanish Civil War . Among other things, he was visiting scholar at the University of Toronto (2000/2001), Princeton University, Cornell University (1998), the University of California, San Diego (1993/94), and at the REHSEIS Research Network for the History of Science CNRS in Paris and as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (from 2013).

He is a member of the Academie International d'Histoire de Sciences. He is co-editor of Annals of Science (from 2003) and Historia Mathematica (from 2006). From 2001 to 2005 he was the consulting editor of Isis. He is editor of the Spanish series Classics de la Cienzia (from 1998).

Among other things, he edited translations by Johannes Kepler , Evariste Galois and the Summa Aritmetica des Francesc Santcliment (1482).

Fonts

In addition to the works cited in the footnotes:

  • From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals. Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities . Barcelona 1996.
  • Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912-1967) . Barcelona 1995.
  • with J. Paradis: Els orígens i l'ensenyament de l'àlgebra simbòlica . Barcelona 1984.
  • James Gregorie on Tangents and the "Taylor" Rule of Series Expansions . Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 46, 1993, pp. 97-137.
  • Mil años de matematicas en Iberia . In: A. Duran (editor): El legado de las matematicas . University of Seville 2000, pp. 193-224.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antoni Malet. In: Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
  2. ^ For example, Kepler and the Telescope. In: Annals of Science, Volume 60, 2003, pp. 107-135.
    Keplerian illusions. Geometrical Pictures versus Optical Images in Kepler's Visual Theory. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 21, 1990, pp. 1-40.
    Gregorie, Descartes, Kepler and the Law of Refraction. In: Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, Volume 40, 1990, pp. 278-304.
    The power of images: Mathematics and metaphysics in Hobbes's optics. In: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, Volume 32, 2001, pp. 303-333
    Isaac Barrow on the Mathematization of Nature: Theological Voluntarism and the Rise of Geometrical Optics. In: Journal of the History of Ideas, Volume 58, 1997, pp. 265-287.
  3. ^ For example Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer and spanish mathematics after the civil war. In: Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 20, 1998, pp. 23-30.
    La Guerra Civil i les institucions catalanes de recerca: El cas de la recerca matemàtica (1907–1967). In: A. Roca et al. a. (Ed.): La Ciència en la Història dels Països Catalans. IEC, Barcelona, ​​2005.
personal data
SURNAME Malet, Antoni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1950