Eleanor Robson
Eleanor Robson (* 1969 ) is a British ancient orientalist and science historian specializing in Mesopotamian mathematics.
Robson studied from 1987 at the University of Warwick and from 1991 at the University of Oxford ( Wolfson College ). In 1995/96 she was a Junior Lecturer in Akkadian at Oxford. She is a reader at Cambridge University . Robson is Associate Director of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq (formerly the British School of Archeology of Iraq). She is a Quondam Fellow at All Souls College , Oxford.
She was involved in the protection of cultural property in Iraq in view of the massive robbery excavations after the Gulf War. She lives in Oxford.
She received the Lester Randolph Ford Award for her essay on Plimpton 322 . For Mathematics in Ancient Iraq: A Social History , she received the 2011 Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society .
Fonts
- with Jacqueline Stedall (editor): Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics , Oxford University Press 2009
- Mathematics in Ancient Iraq - a social history , Princeton University Press 2008
- Mesopotamian Mathematics 2100–1600 BC: Technical Constants in Bureaucracy and Education , Oxford Editions of Cuneiform Texts, Volume 14, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1999
- with Jeremy Black, Graham Cunningham, GG Zólyomi: The Literature of Ancient Sumer , Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004
- with M. Campbell-Kelly, M. Croarken, RG Flood (editors): The History of Mathematical Tables from Sumer to Spreadsheets , Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003.
- with Luke Treadwell, Chris Gosden: Who owns objects? -the ethics and politics of collecting cultural artefacts (Proceedings of the first St. Cross-All Souls Seminar Series and Workshop, Oxford, October to December 2004), Oxbow Books 2006
- Mesopotamian Mathematics , in Eric Katz a. a. Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam - a sourcebook , Princeton University Press 2007
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Words and Pictures - new light on Plimpton 322 , American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 109, 2002, pp.105-120 , reprinted in Marlow Anderson, Eric Katz, Robin Wilson (editors) Sherlock Holmes in Babylon , Mathematical Association of America 2004
- ^ Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society (hssonline.org); Retrieved November 12, 2011
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| SURNAME | Robson, Eleanor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician and ancient orientalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1969 |