Judith Grabiner

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Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938 in Los Angeles ) is an American mathematician.

Grabiner studied at the University of Chicago ( Bachelor Accounts in mathematics in 1960) and Harvard University , where she in 1962 her master did Accounts in the history of science and history of science over 1966 Lagrange at I. Bernard Cohen (and Dirk Struik ) doctorate was ( The calculus as algebra. J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 ). Then she was there from 1966 to 1969 instructor in the history of science. From 1969 she was a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970 at California State University in Los Angeles, from 1972 Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills (from 1975 Associate Professor and from 1979 Professor), and from 1985 at Pitzer College in Claremont (California) . She is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics there.

Among other things, she dealt with the history of analysis in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including Augustin Louis Cauchy and Lagrange. Grabiner won the Mathematical Association of America's Allendoerfer Award three times and the Lester Randolph Ford Award four times .

She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

She has been married to the mathematician Sandy Grabiner since 1964. The couple have a son and a daughter.

Fonts

  • A historian looks back. The calculus as algebra and selected writings. MAA 2010
  • The origins of Cauchy's rigorous calculus. MIT Press 1981, Dover 2005
  • The calculus as algebra. J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813. Garland Publishing 1990 (her PhD thesis)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Allendoerfer Award
  4. ↑ 1996 for Descartes and Problem-Solving , Math. Magazine, Volume 68, 1995, pp. 83-97, in 1989 for The Centrality of Mathematics in the History of Western Thought , Math. Mag., Volume 61, 1988, p . 220-230 and 1984 for The Changing Concept of Change: The Derivative from Fermat to Weierstrass , Math. Mag., Volume 56, 1983, pp. 195-206
  5. ↑ 2010 for Why Did Lagrange 'Prove' the Parallel Postulates? , American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 116, 2009, pp. 3-18, 2005 to Newton, Maclaurin, and the Authority of Mathematics , The American Mathematical Monthly, Vol. 111, 2004, pp. 841-852, 1998 to What is Newton's calculus a dead end? The continental influence of Maclaurin's Treatise of Fluxions , Amer. Math. Monthly, Volume 104, 1997, pp. 393-410, and in 1984 for Who gave you the epsilon? Cauchy and the origins of rigorous calculus , Amer. Math. Monthly, Vol. 90, 1983, pp. 185-194
personal data
SURNAME Grabiner, Judith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grabiner, Judith Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles