Kirsti Andersen

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Kirsti Møller Andersen , she also published as Kirsti Pedersen (born December 9, 1941 in Copenhagen ), is a Danish mathematician.

Kirsti Andersen and Henk Bos, Oberwolfach 2005

Life

Andersen is Assistant Professor (Associate Professor) of the History of Science at Aarhus University , where she has been an assistant and then a lecturer in the history of mathematics since her candidate examination in 1967. She deals with the early history of analysis (for example Cavalieri and Roberval ) and the history of perspective , among others with Leon Battista Alberti , Piero della Francesca , Albrecht Dürer , Leonardo da Vinci , Guidobaldo del Monte , Stevin , Willem Jacob 's Gravesande , Gérard Desargues , Johann Heinrich Lambert , Brook Taylor . She continued to study, for example, the history of Danish mathematics and advocated the use of the history of mathematics in high school classes.

In 2005 she received her doctorate in Aarhus (The Geometry of an Art. The history of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge).

She is married to Henk Bos .

Fonts

  • Andersen The Geometry of an Art - The History of the mathematical theory of perspective from Alberti to Monge , Springer 2007
  • Andersen Brook Taylor's work on mathematical perspective , Springer 1992 (with a new edition of Brook Taylor's work on perspective)
  • (as Kirsti Pedersen): Techniques of the Calculus 1630-1660 , in Ivor Grattan-Guinness (editor) From the calculus to set theory 1630-1910 , Princeton University Press, 1980, 2000

literature

  • Jesper Lützen , Henrik Kragh Sørensen (editors): In honor of Kirsti Andersen , Centaurus, Volume 52, 2010, pp. 1-3.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirsti Andersen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ Andersen Cavalieri's Method of Indivisibles , Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 31, 1985, pp. 291-367.
  3. ↑ Pedersen Roberval's method of tangents , Centaurus, Volume 13, 1969, p. 151
  4. ↑ Andersen An impression of mathematics in Denmark 1600–1800 , Centaurus, Volume 24, 1980, p. 316
personal data
SURNAME Andersen, Kirsti
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Møller Andersen, Kirsti; Pedersen, Kirsti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 9, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen