Karen Parshall

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Karen Virginia Hunger Parshall (born July 7, 1955 in Virginia Beach ; born Karen Virginia Hunger ) is an American mathematician .

Life

Karen Parshall studied Romance Studies (French) and Mathematics at the University of Virginia , where she received her Masters Degree in Mathematics in 1978. She then received her PhD in history (history of mathematics) at the University of Chicago in 1982 under the historian Allen G. Debus (1926–2009) and the mathematician Israel Herstein . The topic of her dissertation was the history of algebra theory, especially with Joseph Wedderburn ( The contributions of JHM Wedderburn to the theory of algebras, 1900-1910 ). From 1982 to 1987 she was an assistant professor at Sweet Briar College and 1987/88 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . Since 1988 she has been teaching history of science, mathematics and especially the history of mathematics at the University of Virginia, where she has been assistant professor since 1988, associate professor since 1993 and professor since 1999. Among other things, she was visiting scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1985).

Parshall dealt mainly with the development of mathematics in the USA since the 19th century (especially the Chicago School with, for example, Leonard Dickson , which received an essential impetus from contacts with German mathematicians such as Felix Klein at the time of the World Exhibition in 1893) and with the history of algebra. She edited James Joseph Sylvester's correspondence with Oxford University Press and wrote his biography.

In 1996/97 she was a Guggenheim Fellow. In 1994 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich ( Mathematics in National Contexts (1875–1900): An International Overview ). Since 2002 she has been a corresponding member of the Paris Académie internationale d'histoire des sciences. From 1996 to 1999 she was editor of the journal Historia Mathematica. She served on the governing body of the History of Science Society and from 1998 to 2001 of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), of which she is a fellow.

Fonts

  • Eliakim Hastings Moore and the Founding of a Mathematical Community in America, 1892-1902, Annals of Science 41, 1984, pp. 313-333; Reprinted in Peter Duren (Editor): A Century of Mathematics in America. Part II , AMS History of Mathematics 2, Providence 1989, pp. 155–175 ( at AMS Books Online : Part Chicago )
  • Joseph HM Wedderburn and the Structure Theory of Algebras , Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32, 1985, pp. 223-349
  • The Art of Algebra from al-Khwarizmi to Viète: a Study in the Natural Selection of Ideas , History of Science 26, 1988, pp. 129-164
  • Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century Invariant Theory , in David E. Rowe, John McCleary (Editor): The History of Modern Mathematics Volume 1, Academic Press, Boston 1989, pp. 157-206
  • with David E. Rowe: American Mathematics Comes of Age: 1875-1900 , in Peter Duren (editor): A Century of Mathematics in America. Part III , AMS History of Mathematics 3, 1989, pp. 3–28 ( at AMS Books Online : Part The Nineteenth Century ; at Google Books )
  • with David E. Rowe : The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876–1900: JJ Sylvester , Felix Klein , and EH Moore , AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 8, Providence / London 1994
  • James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters , Oxford University Press, 1998
  • with Adrian C. Rice (editor): Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800–1945 , AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 23, 2002
  • James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World , Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2006, ISBN 0-8018-8291-5
  • with Jeremy J. Gray (editor): Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950) , AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 32, Providence / London 2007 (conference at MSRI 2003)
  • Perspectives on American Mathematics , Bulletin AMS, Volume 37, 2000, pp. 381-405
  • with Victor J. Katz : Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century , Princeton University Press 2014

literature

  • Florence Fasanelli: Karen Parshall . In: Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl (eds.): Notable women in mathematics. A biographical dictionary . Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport CT et al. 1998, ISBN 0-313-29131-4 , pp. 157-160, (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karen Parshall: The One-Hundredth Anniversary of Mathematics at the University of Chicago, The Mathematical Intelligencer 14, 1992, pp. 39-44
  2. ^ Karen Parshall: A Study in Group Theory: Leonard Eugene Dickson's Linear Groups, The Mathematical Intelligencer 13, 1991, pp. 7-11
  3. ^ Karen Parshall, David E. Rowe: Embedded in the Culture: Mathematics at the World's Columbian Exposition , The Mathematical Intelligencer 15, 1993, pp. 40-45
  4. ↑ also dealt with in Karen Parshall: The One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Invariant Theory? , The Mathematical Intelligencer 12, 1990, pp. 10-16
personal data
SURNAME Parshall, Karen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hunger Parshall, Karen; Hunger, Karen Virginia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Virginia Beach