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and Doctor of Philosophy (1966) in the history of science at Harvard University, and is currently Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics at Pitzer College.
historian mathematician university professor
and Doctor of Philosophy (1966) in the history of science at Harvard University, and is currently Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics at Pitzer College.
Her main interests are in mathematics from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She earned her Bachelor of Surgery in mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1960 and her Master of Arts She previously taught at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her book The Origins of Cauchy"s Rigorous Calculus explores the background in which the limit definition was developed.
Another book on the work of Joseph Louis Lagrange discusses related material.
American Mathematical Society.