Biography:Joan L. Richards
Joan Livingston Richards (born 1948)[1] is an American historian of mathematics and a professor of history at Brown University, where she directs the Program of Science and Technology Studies.[2]
Education and career
Richards graduated magna cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1971. She completed a Ph.D. in the history of science at Harvard University in 1981.[3] Her dissertation, Non-Euclidean Geometry In Nineteenth-century England: A Study of Changing Perceptions of Mathematical Truth, was supervised by I. Bernard Cohen.[4]
After postdoctoral research at Cornell University, she joined the Brown University faculty in 1982, and was promoted to full professor in 2001.[3]
Books
Richards is the author of the monograph Mathematical Visions: The Pursuit of Geometry in Victorian England (Academic Press, 1988)[5] and of a memoir on her struggle to balance her academic work with caring for a son with a brain tumor, Angles of Reflection: Logic and a Mother's Love (W. H. Freeman, 2000).[6]
She is the co-editor of The Invention of Physical Science: Intersections of Mathematics, Theology and Natural Philosophy since the Seventeenth Century, Essays in Honor of Erwin N. Hiebert (with Mary Jo Nye and Roger H. Stuewer, Kluwer, 1992).[7]
References
- ↑ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-09-05
- ↑ Joan L. Richards, Brown University Department of History, https://www.brown.edu/academics/history/people/joan-l-richards, retrieved 2020-09-05
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Curriculum vitae, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, August 2018, https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/2018-08/cv_deptdaston_richards_joan.pdf, retrieved 2020-09-05
- ↑ Joan L. Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Reviews of Mathematical Visions:
- Majumdar, P. K., "none", zbMATH
- Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (June 1989), "English-style geometries", Nature 339 (6223): 349, doi:10.1038/339349a0
- McCleary, John (November 17, 1989), "Euclid unseated", Science, New Series 246 (4932): 940, doi:10.1126/science.246.4932.940, PMID 17812578
- Scholz, Erhard (1990), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Banchoff, Thomas (Summer 1990), "none", Victorian Studies 33 (4): 662–664
- Lewis, Albert C. (August 1990), "none", Historia Mathematica 17 (3): 272–278, doi:10.1016/0315-0860(90)90015-6
- Crilly, Tony (September 1990), "none", The British Journal for the History of Science 23 (3): 338–340, doi:10.1017/S000708740004406X
- Jongsma, Calvin (September 1990), "none", Isis 81 (3): 585–586, doi:10.1086/355505
- Lambert, Kenneth A. (1991), "none", History of European Ideas 13 (1–2): 145–146, doi:10.1016/0191-6599(91)90122-F
- Tattersall, J. J. (September 1991), "none", The College Mathematics Journal 22 (4): 355–356, doi:10.2307/2686243
- Price, M. H. (May 1992), "none", Annals of Science 49 (3): 288–291, doi:10.1080/00033799200200271
- ↑ Reviews of Angles of Reflection:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly, https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7167-3831-2
- Bonomo, Joe (2000), "none", Creative Nonfiction 16: 138–143
- Sutton, Jennifer (July–August 2000), "The maternal equation", Brown Alumni Magazine, https://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/articles/2007-05-03/the-maternal-equation
- Heller, Scott (October 20, 2000), "A historian's tale, and a mother's, too", The Chronicle of Higher Education, https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-historians-tale-and-a-mothers-too-8395/
- Luhrmann, Tanya (January 21, 2001), "Human Equation: A mathematician faces a world of uncertainties in her son's illness", The New York Times, https://movies2.nytimes.com/books/01/01/21/reviews/010121.21luhrmat.html
- Rauff, James V. (March 2001), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 94 (3): 238
- Fox, Michael (November 2002), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 86 (507): 562–563, doi:10.2307/3621196
- ↑ Review of The Invention of Physical Science:
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995), "none", Annals of Science 52 (2): 209–211, doi:10.1080/00033799500200191
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