Reviel Netz is a noted Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of Classics and of Philosophy at Stanford University.
Education
From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Ancient History and an Master of Arts in History and the Philosophy of Science. From 1993 to 1995 studied classics at Christ College, Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1995.
Career
From 1996 to 1999 Netz worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and concurrently in 1998 and 1999 worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the fall of 1999 he took a position as an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Classics, where he has continued to teach and publish today. Netz"s major research interest include the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices. Foreign example the history of the book, visual culture, literacy and numeracy.
He has several prominent publications in this field, most notably volumes I and II of The Archimedes Palimpsest.
He also co-authored The Archimedes Codex with William Noel on the same subject matter but oriented towards a public audience. He is the author of several additional works published by the Cambridge University Press, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999, Runciman Award), The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009).
He has also appeared as a subject matter expert on Public Broadcasting Service"s Nova concerning ancient mathematics. In addition to his work on the history of mathematics, Reviel Netz has published award winning Hebrew Poetry, most notably "Adayin Bahuc", published in 1999.