Carolyn Eisele

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Carolyn Eisele (born June 13, 1902 in Bronx , † January 15, 2000 in New York City ) was an American mathematician.

Eisele studied at Hunter College in New York with Lao Genevra Simons with a bachelor's degree in 1921 and studied mathematics at Columbia University (master's degree in 1925) and the University of Chicago . At the same time she taught at Hunter College from 1923 until her retirement in 1972. It was there that she began her interest in the history of mathematics, which she also taught.

In 1953, together with C. Doris Hellman and Carl Boyer , she founded the New York section of the History of Science Society, which in the early 1990s was merged into the History of Science Department of the New York Academy of Sciences.

She was a leading expert on Charles Sanders Peirce . In 1982 she became an advisor to the Peirce Edition Project at Indiana University and Purdue University, which is now her Peirce library. She was active in the Charles S. Peirce Society and in an association that restored his home in Milford, Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Institute for Studies in Pragmatism.

She was an honorary doctor from Lehigh University and Texas Tech University.

Fonts

  • CS Peirce: a nineteenth century man of science, Scripta Mathematica, Volume 24, 1959, pp. 305-324
  • Studies in the Scientific and Mathematical Philosophy of Charles S. Peirce: Essays by Carolyn Eisele, 1979
  • Editor: Historical Perspectives on Peirce's Logic of Science. A History of Science 2 volumes. Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1985

literature

  • Joseph W. Dauben , Christoph J. Scriba (eds.): Writing the history of mathematics , Birkhäuser 2002, p. 415
  • Special Issue Ye in Honor of Historia Mathematica, Volume 9, 1982, No. 2
personal data
SURNAME Eisele, Carolyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Bronx
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2000
Place of death New York City