Serafina Cuomo

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Serafina Cuomo (born May 21, 1966 ) is an Italian historian of mathematics and science.

Cuomo studied philosophy at the University of Naples and received a PhD in the history and philosophy of science from Cambridge University . She was at Imperial College London and is Reader in Roman history at Birkbeck College of the University of London .

Cuomo deals with the history of ancient mathematics, including arithmetic practice in ancient Rome and Pappos , and with the history of ancient technology. She also dealt with ballistics at Niccolò Tartaglia .

Fonts

  • Ancient Mathematics , Routledge 2001
  • Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity , Cambridge University Press 2007
  • Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity , Cambridge University Press 2000
  • Ancient written sources for engineering and technology , in P. Oleson (Ed.) Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World , Oxford 2007

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cuomo, Shooting by the book. Notes on Niccolo Tartaglia's Nova Scientia , History of Science, Vol. 35, 197, pp. 155-188
personal data
SURNAME Cuomo, Serafina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cuomo, S.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1966