Biography:Amy Dahan
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Short description: French mathematician
Amy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change.
Education and career
Dahan earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1979 and taught mathematics at the University of Amiens until 1983, when she became a researcher for the CNRS. She has also taught at the École Polytechnique, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and Université libre de Bruxelles. She earned a second doctorate in the history of mathematics in 1990, and is an emeritus member of the Alexandre Koyré Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology.[1]
Books
Dahan is the author of:
- Une histoire des mathématiques: routes et dédales (with Jeanne Peiffer, Études Vivantes, 1982). Translated into English by Sanford Segal as History of Mathematics: Highways and Byways (American Mathematical Society, 2010). Also translated into German as Wege und Irrwege — Eine Geschichte der Mathematik (Birkhäuser, 1994) and into Russian as Пути и лабиринты: Очерки по истории математики (Mir, 1986).[2]
- Mathématiques au fil des âges (with J. Dhombres, R. Bkouche, C. Houzel, and M. Guillemot, Bordas, 1987)[3]
- Mathématisations: Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'École Française (Éditions du Choix, 1992)[4]
- Jacques-Louis Lions, un mathématicien d'exception: entre recherche, industrie et politique (Éditions La Découverte, 2005)
- Les modèles du futur: changement climatique et scénarios économiques, enjeux scientifiques et politiques (Éditions La Découverte, 2007)[5]
- Gouverner le climat ? 20 ans de négociations internationales (with Stefan C. Aykut, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015)[6]
She is the editor of:
- La Formation polytechnicienne, 1794–1994 (with Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon, Dunod, 1994)[7]
- La France des X. Deux siècles d'histoire (with Bruno Belhoste, Dominique Pestre, and Antoine Picon, Economica, 1995)[8]
- Changing Images in Mathematics: From the French Revolution to the New Millennium (with Umberto Bottazini, Routledge, 2001).[9]
References
- ↑ Amy Dahan Dalmedico, Centre Alexander-Koyré, http://koyre.ehess.fr/index.php?367, retrieved 2019-01-20
- ↑ Reviews of ''Une histoire des mathématiques and its translations:
- Brouzeng, Paul (July–December 1983), "none", Revue d'histoire des sciences 36 (3/4): 355–356
- Brânzei, Dan (1988), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Lützen, Jesper (1996), "none", Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-6175-5, ISBN 978-3-0348-6176-2
- Tattersall, James (April 2010), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/history-of-mathematics-highways-and-byways
- Eaton, Charles (March 2011), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 95 (532): 149–150, doi:10.1017/S0025557200002643
- Dummitt, Nathan (October 2011), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 105 (3): 237, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.105.3.0236
- Nagaraj, S. V. (December 2013), "none", ACM SIGACT News 44 (4): 27–28, doi:10.1145/2556663.2556667
- ↑ Review of Mathématiques au fil des âges:
- Spalt, Detlef D. (May 1988), "none", Educational Studies in Mathematics 19 (2): 281–286
- ↑ Reviews of Mathématisations:
- Lewis, Albert C. (1994), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Goldstein, Catherine; Wolfson, Paul R. (February 1994), "none", Historia Mathematica 21 (1): 88–93, doi:10.1006/hmat.1994.1010
- Fraser, Craig (September 1995), "none", Isis 86 (3): 501–502, doi:10.1086/357285
- ↑ Review of Les modèles du futur:
- Locher, Fabien (July–September 2010), "none", Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 57e (3): 181–183, doi:10.3917/rhmc.573.0181
- ↑ Review of Gouverner le climat:
- Baillat, Alice (June 2015), "none", Revue française de science politique 65 (3): 504–506
- ↑ Review of La Formation polytechnicienne:
- Licoppe, Christian (July–September 1997), "none", Revue d'histoire des sciences 50 (3): 378
- ↑ Review of La France des X:
- Grelon, André (January 1998), "none", Histoire de l'Éducation 77 (77): 94–99
- ↑ Review of Changing Images in Mathematics:
- Nastasi, Pietro (July–December 2004), "none", Revue d'histoire des sciences 57 (2): 449–451
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