Biography:Clemency Montelle
Clemency Montelle (born 8 July 1977)[1] is a New Zealand historian of mathematics known for her research on Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.[2][3] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Canterbury,[1][4] and a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute of the Victoria University of Wellington.[5]
Education
Montelle is originally from Christchurch.[2] She earned first class honours in mathematics and classical studies at the University of Canterbury in 1999, and completed a master's degree there in 2000.[1] It was not until the fourth year of her studies that, finding a copy of Euclid in the original Greek, she realized that she could reconcile her two interests by working in the history of mathematics.[2][3]
She became a Fulbright Scholar at Brown University, where she learned Cuneiform, Sanskrit, and Arabic.[3][6] She completed a Ph.D. in the history of mathematics there in 2005;[1] at Brown, her faculty mentors included David Pingree, Alice Slotsky, and Kim Plofker.[7]
Service
Montelle was vice president of the Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy for the 2017–2021 term.[8]
Books
Montelle is the author of the book Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early Reckoning of Eclipse theory (Johns Hopkins Press, 2011).[9] With Kim Plofker, she is the coauthor of Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (Springer, 2019).[10]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Curriculum vitae, November 2011, https://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~c.montelle/downloads/CV-November2011.pdf, retrieved 2020-09-17
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Profile: Clemency Montelle", New Zealand Mathematical Society Newsletter 131: 16–17, December 2017, https://nzmathsoc.org.nz/downloads/newsletters/NZMSnews131_Dec2017.pdf
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Dr Clemency Montelle revealing the many faces of mathematics, Royal Society of New Zealand, 20 December 2017, https://www.royalsociety.org.nz/what-we-do/funds-and-opportunities/marsden/celebrating-marsden-research/in-focus/clemency-montelle-many-faces-of-mathematics/
- ↑ Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury, https://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/contact-us/people/clemency-montelle.html, retrieved 2020-09-17
- ↑ Dr Clemency Montelle, New Zealand India Research Institute, https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/nziri/fellows/fellows/science/clemency-montelle, retrieved 2020-09-17
- ↑ White, Rebekah (March–April 2018), The Gaps in History: Clemency Montelle reads mathematics and astronomy texts in ancient languages, https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-gaps-in-history/
- ↑ "Three questions to Clemency Montelle", SAW ERC: Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World, March 14, 2014, https://sawerc.hypotheses.org/1545, retrieved 2020-09-17
- ↑ CHAMA officers, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, 27 September 2011, https://isaw.nyu.edu/members/alexander.jones-40nyu.edu/chama/chama-officers, retrieved 2020-09-17
- ↑ Reviews of Chasing Shadows:
- Bowen, Alan C. (June 2013), "none", Isis 104 (2): 385–387, doi:10.1086/672171
- Duke, Dennis (November 2012), "none", Journal for the History of Astronomy 43 (4): 500–502, doi:10.1177/002182861204300410
- Kerszberg, Pierre, "none", MathSciNet
- Linton, Christopher (March 2012), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 59 (3 ed.), pp. 430–433, https://www.ams.org/notices/201203/rtx120300430p.pdf
- McCleary, John (January 2014), "Review", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/chasing-shadows-mathematics-astronomy-and-the-early-history-of-eclipse-reckoning
- ↑ Reviews of Sanskrit Astronomical Tables:
- Dani, S. G., "none", MathSciNet
- Guthery, Scott (August 2019), "Review", MAA Reviews (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sanskrit-astronomical-tables
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