June Barrow-Green
June Barrow-Green (born June 3, 1953 ) is a British mathematician.
She studied at King's College London and from 1989 at the Open University , where she did her doctorate in 1993 with Jeremy Gray . She is currently lecturer in the history of mathematics there.
Barrow-Green studied mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in France, England and the USA. She became known for her work on Henri Poincaré and his fundamental work on dynamic systems and celestial mechanics, in which the beginnings of chaos theory can also be found. She discovered that Poincaré made a serious mistake in the work submitted for the prize of the Swedish-Norwegian King Oskar II , which he then corrected in the published work on the three-body problem (Acta Mathematica 1890) and in doing so his discovery of homoclinic orbits, which was essential for the later chaos theory made.
She is co-editor of Historia Mathematica and on the International Commission for the History of Science. She is working on a database on British mathematicians from 1860 to 1940 (as the book Biographical Dictionary of Victorian Scientists ).
Fonts
- Poincaré and the Three Body Problem , American Mathematical Society 1997 (derived from her dissertation), Review by Gottlieb, pdf
- Poincaré and the discovery of chaos , Icon Books 2005
- Editor with Timothy Gowers , Imre Leader : Princeton companion to mathematics , Princeton University Press 2008
- International Congresses of Mathematicians from Zurich 1897 to Cambridge 1912 Mathematical Intelligencer, Volume 16, 1994, pp. 38-41.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Barrow-Green, June |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1953 |