Niccolò Guicciardini

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Niccolò Guicciardini (center), with David E. Rowe (left), Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (right), Oberwolfach 2005

Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati (born May 28, 1957 in Florence ) is an Italian mathematician.

Guicciardini studied philosophy at the Università degli Studi di Milano with a degree in 1982 and received his doctorate in 1987 under Ivor Grattan-Guinness at Middlesex University in the history of science. The subject of the dissertation was the reception of Isaac Newton's method of analysis (theory of fluxions). He then studied physics at the Università degli Studi di Milano, graduating in 1992. He then did research at the University of Bologna (as Ricercatore ) until 2001 , was professor in Siena and since 2006 professor of the history of science at the University of Bergamo and has been a professor since 2019 of the University of Milan .

He was visiting professor at Caltech (Mellon Visiting Professor) and at the University of Paris VII . He is a tenured member of Clare Hall College , Cambridge.

Guicciardini deals with the history and philosophy of natural science and mathematics in the 17th and 18th centuries and is an internationally recognized expert on the mathematics of Isaac Newton and the reception of his analysis.

In 2011 he received the Portuguese Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science for his book Isaac Newton. On Mathematical Certainty and Method , in which he pursues Newton's philosophy of mathematics and compares it with that of René Descartes , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and other mathematicians of the 17th century. In 2012 he received the Saron Medal from the University of Ghent.

He was co-editor of Historia Mathematica from 2010 to 2015 and is on the editorial board of the Archive for History of Exact Sciences , is on the Executive Committee of the International Commission for the History of Mathematics and is a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science .

Fonts

  • The Development of Newtonian Calculus in Britain, 1700-1800 , Cambridge University Press, 1989
  • Newton: un Filosofo della Natura e il Sistema del Mondo , Le Scienze, 1998
  • Reading the Principia: the Debate on Newton's Mathematical Methods for Natural Philosophy from 1687 to 1736 , Cambridge University Press, 1999.
  • Isaac Newton. On mathematical certainty and method , MIT Press 2009
  • Did Newton use his calculus in the Principia? , Centaurus, Vol. 40, 1998, pp. 303-344
  • Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica . In: Ivor Grattan-Guinness (Ed.): Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics. 1640-1940. Elsevier, Amsterdam et al. 2005, pp. 59-87.
  • Isaac Newton and the publication of his mathematical manuscripts , Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science A, Volume 35, 2004, pp. 455-470

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Niccolò Guicciardini: CV (PDF) UniMi.it. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  2. ^ The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Niccolò Guicciardini . Genealogy.impa.br. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  3. ↑ Fernando Gil Prize 2011
personal data
SURNAME Guicciardini, Niccolò
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guicciardini Corsi Salviati, Niccolò (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence