Joseph Dauben

Joseph Dauben
Born
Joseph Warren Dauben

(1944-12-29) December 29, 1944 (age 79)
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
EducationHarvard University (PhD)
OccupationHistorian

Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944, Santa Monica) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.[1] He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1972. His PhD thesis The early development of Cantorian Set Theory was supervised by Dirk Struik.[2]

Dauben's fields of expertise are the history of science, the history of mathematics, the Scientific Revolution, the sociology of science, intellectual history, the 17th and 18th centuries, the history of Chinese science, and the history of botany.

Positions

Dauben is a 1980 Guggenheim fellow.[3]

He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (since 1982).[4]

Dauben is an elected member (1991) of the International Academy of the History of Science[5] and an elected foreign member (2001) of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.[6]

In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.[7]

Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work.[8]

The creator of non-standard analysis, Abraham Robinson was the subject of Dauben's 1995 book Abraham Robinson. It was reviewed positively by Moshé Machover, but the review noted that it avoids discussing any of Robinson's negative aspects, and "in this respect [the book] borders on the hagiographic, painting a portrait without warts."[9]

In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[4][10] In 2012 he received the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).[11]

Publications

  • 1979: Georg Cantor, His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Harvard University Press,[12] LCCN 77-23435 ISBN 0674348710
  • 1995: Abraham Robinson, The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey, Princeton University Press, LCCN 94-32715

Articles, reviews, and essays

  • 1985: "Abraham Robinson and Nonstandard Analysis: History, Philosophy, and Foundations of Mathematics", in William Aspray and Philip Kitcher, eds. History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, pages 177–200, Minnesota Studies in Philososphy of Science XI, University of Minnesota Press, 1988. Online here.
  • 1991: "La Matematica," in W. Shea editor, Storia delle Scienze. LeScienze Fisiche e Astronomiche (Milano: Banca Popolare di Milano, and Einaudi, 1992) pp. 258–280
  • 1992: "Are There Revolutions in Mathematics?" in The Space of Mathematics (editors J. Echieverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann) (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 203–226.
  • 1992: "Conceptual Revolutions and the History of Mathematics: Two Studies in the Growth of Knowledge", Chapter 4 of D. Gillies, editor, Revolutions in Mathematics, Clarendon Press pp. 49–71.
  • 1992: "Revolutions Revisited", Chapter 5 of D. Gillies, editor, Revolutions in Mathematics (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 72–82.
  • 2008: "Suan shu shu. A book on numbers and computations", translated from the Chinese and with commentary by Joseph W. Dauben. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 62(2): 91–178.
  • 2015: with Marjorie Senechal, Dauben, Joseph; Senechal, Marjorie (2015). "Math at the Met". The Mathematical Intelligencer. 37 (3): 41–54. doi:10.1007/s00283-015-9571-8.

See also

References

  1. ^ Distinguished Professors. Archived 9 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine City University of New York. Accessed 28 May 2011
  2. ^ Joseph Warren Dauben at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ Fellows Archived 21 September 2012 at the Wayback Machine, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed 27 May 2011
  4. ^ a b Faculty profile Archived 8 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Accessed 27 May 2011
  5. ^ Joseph Warren Dauben, International Academy of the History of Science. Accessed 27 May 2011
  6. ^ Academy members: Joseph W. Dauben Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Accessed 27 May 2011
  7. ^ A Brief History of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM). Archived 30 April 2017 at the Wayback Machine International Commission on History of Mathematics. Accessed 27 May 2011
  8. ^ Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998, Extra Volume ICM 1998. Documenta Mathematica,
  9. ^ Machoover, Moshé (1996) "Review: Joseph Warren Dauben, Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47: 137–140
  10. ^ New Faculty, 365 Fifth, April 2004, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Accessed 27 May 2011
  11. ^ Kehoe, Elaine (2012). "Joseph Warren Dauben received the 2012 AMS Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize"" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 59 (4): 572–575.
  12. ^ Lewis, Albert C. (September 1980). "review of Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite by Joseph Warren Dauben". Isis. 71 (3). doi:10.1086/352561.