Christine Proust

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Christine Proust is a French mathematician and science historian and cuneiform expert who studies mathematics in Mesopotamia .

Proust received her Agrégation in Mathematics in 1992 and her DEA in History of Science in 1999 from the University of Paris VII (Denis Diderot). In 2004 she received her doctorate in the history of mathematics under Christian Houzel . 2010 habilitation they are. She is Research Director of the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in the Sphere Group of the CNRS and the University of Paris VII. In 2010/11 she was at the Institut Méditeranéen de Recherches Avancées.

She studied mathematical cuneiform texts from Nippur in Istanbul and Jena from the early 2nd millennium BC, which she published in two volumes. She also deals with the estate of Otto Neugebauer (she was co-organizer of a colloquium on Neugebauer in New York in 2010) and published 322 on Plimpton .

With Agathe Keller (expert for mathematical Sanskrit texts at the Sphere Laboratory) she heads the project Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World in the Middle East, financed by Karine Chemla's ERC Advanced Grant .

In 2009 she was at the Institute for Advanced Study and in 2009/10 at New York University .

In 2012 she received the Prix ​​Paul Doistau-Émile Blutet de l'Information Scientifique .

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  • Tablets mathématiques de Nippur. Volume I: Reconstitution du cursus scolaire. Volume II: Edition of the tablettes conservées à Istanbul. Varia Anatolica 18, IFEA. De Boccard, Istanbul 2007.
  • Tablets mathématiques de la Hilprecht collection . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008. (with the assistance of Manfred Krebernik, Joachim Oelsner)
  • Mesopotamian metrological lists and tables: Forgotten sources. In: F. Bretelle-Establet (Ed.): Looking at it from Asia: the processes that shaped the sources of history of science. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 2010.
  • La multiplication babylonienne: la part non écrite du calcul. In: Revue d'histoire des mathématiques. Volume 6, 2000, pp. 293-303.
  • Quantifier et calculer: usages des nombres à Nippur. In: Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques. 14, Société Mathématique de France, 2008, pp. 143-209 ( online ).
  • Teachers 'writings and students' writings: school material in Mesopotamia. In: G. Gueudet, B. Pepin, L. Trouche (Eds.): From text to 'Lived' Resources. Mathematical Materials and Teacher Development. Springer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-94-007-1965-1 , pp. 161-180, doi : 10.1007 / 978-94-007-1966-8_9 .
  • with John Britton, Steve Shnider: Plimpton 322: a Review and a Different Perspective. In: Archive for History of Exact Sciences. Volume 65, 2011, pp. 519-566, doi : 10.1007 / s00407-011-0083-4 , JSTOR 41287706 .
  • Numerical and metrological graphemes: from cuneiform to transliteration. In: Cuneiform Digital Library Journal. 2009 ( online ).

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personal data
SURNAME Proust, Christine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH before 1992