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Reviel Netz (* 1968 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli classical philologist, science philosopher, science and mathematics historian.

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Netz studied history and philosophy of science at Tel Aviv University from 1988 to 1992 (Master's degree in 1992 summa cum laude on "Bertrand Russell's Theory Of Construction Of Points Out Of Events") and from 1993 as a British Council Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Christ Church College), where he received his PhD in Classical Philology with Geoffrey Lloyd in 1995 ("On the shaping of deduction in Greek mathematics", his dissertation received the 1998 Hellenic Foundation Prize as the best British dissertation on ancient science and philosophy). He was a 1998/99 Dibner Fellow at the Dibner Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1999 he became Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Classical Philology at Stanford University , where he is now a professor.

He is known for his participation in the new edition of the Archimedes Palimpsest . His popular science book about it has been translated into several languages. He also published a new translation of Archimedes' works. In addition, he has dealt with ancient Greek mathematics against a cultural-historical background, e.g. B. with the specifically Alexandrian aesthetics (with a penchant for richness of detail and surprising turns of phrase) on mathematics.

He also wrote a "cultural history" of the use of barbed wire beginning with ranchers in the US 19th century (1874) through to its use in concentration camps and prison camps.

Netz also published a book of Hebrew poems (Adayin Bahuc, Tel Aviv 1999) that received the AMOS Prize. With Maya Arad he also published a volume of essays on Israeli poetry (Meqom Hata'am).

Fonts

• with William Noel: The Codex of Archimedes. The most famous palimpsest in the world is deciphered. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 3406563368 (English: The Archimedes Codex. Weidenfeld and Nicholson 2007).
• Ludic Proof. Greek mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic. Cambridge University Press 2008.
• Barbed wire. An Ecology of Modernity. Wesleyan University Press 2004, ISBN 0819567191 .
• The shaping of deduction in Greek mathematics. A study in cognitive history. Cambridge University Press 1999, ISBN 0521622794 (The book won the Runciman Prize in 2000).
• The transformation of mathematics in the early Mediterranean world: From problems to equations. Cambridge University Press 2004.
• Works of Archimedes (with a critical edition of the diagrams and a translation of Eutocius commentary). Cambridge University Press, Volume 1 (The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder), 2004, ISBN 0521661609 , Volume 2 (On Spirals), 2017, ISBN 0521661455 (translation with commentary, divided into three volumes).

Web links

• Literature from and about Reviel Netz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Brief biography at Stanford
• Another portrait in Stanford