Asger Aaboe
Asger Hartvig Aaboe (born April 26, 1922 in Copenhagen , † January 19, 2007 in North Haven , Connecticut ) was a Danish mathematics and astronomy historian .
Aaboe studied mathematics, astronomy, physics and chemistry at the University of Copenhagen from 1940 , where he received his diploma (Candidatus Magisterii) in 1947 from Otto Neugebauer's student Olaf Schmidt (1913–1966, Professor of the History of Science in Copenhagen) (The determination of areas and volumes in antiquity especially in the works of Archimedes ). In 1947/48 he was visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis . There he met his wife Joan Armstrong, whom he married in 1950 and with whom he had four children. After a time as a teacher in Denmark, he went to Tufts University as an instructor in 1952 . From 1955 he also studied history of science with Otto Neugebauer at Brown University , who was just editing his Astronomical cuneiform texts . In 1957 he received his doctorate from Neugebauer (On Babylonian Planetary Theories).
Aaboe stayed at Tufts University until 1962, where he became Associate Professor in 1959, and then went to the newly established Faculty of History of Science at Yale University , where he was Associate Professor and, from 1967, Professor of Mathematics and the History of Science (from 1977 also for Ancient Oriental Languages ). From 1968 to 1971 he was head of the Faculty for the History of Science. In 1992 he retired.
Aaboe was a specialist in Babylonian astronomical history.
He was a member of the International Academy of the History of Science, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, of which he was president from 1970 to 1980. In 1962 he gave a lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm ( Pre-Ptolemaic greek astronomy ).
Fonts
- Episodes from the Early History of Mathematics. Singer, New York 1964, Mathematical Association of America 1998 (the book has been translated into several languages and is aimed at students)
- Episodes from the Early History of Astronomy. Springer Verlag 2001
literature
- John Lennart Berggren , BR Goldberg (Editor): From ancient omens to statistical mechanics: essays on the exact sciences presented to Asger Aaboe. Copenhagen 1987
Web links
- Literature by and about Asger Aaboe in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gary Thompson biography
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : Asger Aaboe. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
- John P. Britton: In Memoriam Asger Hartvig Aaboe , Aestimatio 3 (2006), 119-122.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aaboe, Asger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Aaboe, Asger Hartvig (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish historian of mathematics and astronomy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Copenhagen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 19, 2007 |
| Place of death | North Haven , Connecticut |