David E. Rowe

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David E. Rowe (born August 11, 1950 ) is an American science and mathematics historian.

David Rowe, Oberwolfach 2005

Rowe studied mathematics and the history of science at the University of Oklahoma . He received his PhD from the City University of New York . Rowe was editor of the Historia Mathematica. Since 1992 he has been professor for the history of mathematics and natural sciences at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz .

Rowe mainly dealt with the Göttingen mathematical tradition, including David Hilbert and Felix Klein and Albert Einstein , his political environment and his development of the general theory of relativity and debates about the theory of relativity in Germany.

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  • Editor with Robert J. Schulmann : "Einstein on Politics - his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, zionism, war, peace and the bomb", Princeton University Press, 2007.
  • with Karen Parshall : “The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876–1900. JJ Sylvester, Felix Klein, and EH Moore, "AMS / LMS History of Mathematics Series, Vol. 8, Providence: American Mathematical Society, 1994.
  • Editor with McCleary "The History of Modern Mathematics: Ideas and their Reception", Academic Press, Vol. 1, 1989 (Rowe: "Klein, Lie, and the Geometric Background of the Erlangen Program"), Vol. 2, 1990
  • "Klein, Hilbert, and the Göttingen Mathematical Tradition", Osiris, Vol. 5, 1989, pp. 186-213.

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SURNAME Rowe, David E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science and math
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1950