Henk Bos

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Kirsti Andersen and Henk Bos, Oberwolfach 2005

Henk Jan Maarten Bos (* 1940 ) is a Dutch mathematician.

Life

Bos received his doctorate in 1973 from the University of Utrecht under Hans Freudenthal on Leibniz ( Differentials, Higher-Order Differentials and the Derivative in the Leibnizian Calculus ). Until his retirement in 2005, he was Professor of Mathematical History at the University of Utrecht . Since 2008 he has been an honorary professor at Aarhus University in the Faculty of History of Science. In 2009 he was a visiting scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin .

Bos dealt in particular with the history of science in the 17th century, among other things with Christian Huygens (whose article in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography he wrote), René Descartes and the beginnings of the development of analysis at Leibniz. He also dealt with Jean- Victor Poncelet and the closure set by Poncelet .

In 2005 he received the Kenneth O. May Prize . In 1985 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Berkeley ( The concept of construction and the representation of curves in seventeenth-century mathematics ).

Erhard Scholz (University of Bonn 1979) is one of his doctoral students .

He is married to the Danish professor for the history of mathematics in Aarhus Kirsti Andersen .

Fonts

  • Redefining Geometrical Exactness: Descartes' Transformation of the Early Modern Concept of Construction , Springer 2001
  • Lectures in the history of mathematics , American Mathematical Society 1993, 1997
  • Editor with MJS Rudwick, HAM Snelders, RPW Visser: Studies on Christiaan Huygens (Invited papers from the symposium on the life and work of Christiaan Huygens, Amsterdam, August 22-25, 1979), Lisse, Swets and Zeitlinger, 1980 (therein von Bos: Huygens and Mathematics ).
  • Editor with Herbert Mehrtens , Ivo Schneider : Social history of nineteenth century mathematics , Boston, Birkhäuser, 1981.
  • with Karin Reich : The double prelude to early modern algebra: Viète and Descartes in Erhard Scholz (editor) History of Algebra , BI Verlag 1990

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bos The structure of Descartes' Géométrie , in Giulia Belgioioso u. a. (Editor): Descartes: il metodo ei saggi (Conference on the 350th anniversary of the publication of the Discours de la Méthode ), Florence, Armando Paoletti, 1990, pp. 349–369, Bos La structure de la Géométrie de Descartes , Revue d ' Histoire des Sciences, Volume 51, 1998, pp. 291-317, Bos On the representation of curves in Descartes' Géométrie , Archive for history of exact sciences, Volume 24, 1981, pp. 295-338.
  2. ↑ Bos Fundamental concepts of the Leibnizian calculus , Studia Leibnitiana, Sonderheft 14, Wiesbaden 1986, Bos Differentials, higher-order differentials and the derivative in the Leibnizian calculus , Archive for history of exact sciences, Volume 14, 1974, pp. 1-90 , Bos The influence of Huygens on the formation of Leibniz 'ideas , Studia Leibnitiana, Supplement 17, Wiesbaden, 1978, Bos Newton, Leibniz and the Leibnizian tradition , in Ivor Grattan-Guinness From calculus to set theory, an introductory history , London 1980 , Chapter 2
  3. ↑ Bos, C. Kers, Frans Oort , DW Raven Poncelet's closure theorem , Expositiones mathematicae, Volume 5, 1987, pp. 289-364.
personal data
SURNAME Bos, Henk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bos, Henk Jan Maarten (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1940