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, retrieved 2020-09-05
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (PDF), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, August 2018, retrieved 2020-09-05
- ^ Joan L. Richards at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Mathematical Visions:
- Majumdar, P. K., zbMATH, Zbl 0654.01002
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Grattan-Guinness, Ivor (June 1989), "English-style geometries", Nature, 339 (6223): 349, Bibcode:1989Natur.339..349G, doi:10.1038/339349a0, S2CID 4257086
- McCleary, John (17 November 1989), "Euclid unseated", Science, New Series, 246 (4932): 940, doi:10.1126/science.246.4932.940, JSTOR 1704814, PMID 17812578
- Scholz, Erhard (1990), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0968441
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Banchoff, Thomas (Summer 1990), Victorian Studies, 33 (4): 662–664, JSTOR 3827805
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lewis, Albert C. (August 1990), Historia Mathematica, 17 (3): 272–278, doi:10.1016/0315-0860(90)90015-6
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Crilly, Tony (September 1990), The British Journal for the History of Science, 23 (3): 338–340, doi:10.1017/S000708740004406X, JSTOR 4026763, S2CID 144906937
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Jongsma, Calvin (September 1990), Isis, 81 (3): 585–586, doi:10.1086/355505, JSTOR 233472
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lambert, Kenneth A. (1991), History of European Ideas, 13 (1–2): 145–146, doi:10.1016/0191-6599(91)90122-F
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Tattersall, J. J. (September 1991), The College Mathematics Journal, 22 (4): 355–356, doi:10.2307/2686243, JSTOR 2686243
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Price, M. H. (May 1992), Annals of Science, 49 (3): 288–291, doi:10.1080/00033799200200271
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- Majumdar, P. K., zbMATH, Zbl 0654.01002
- ^ Reviews of Angles of Reflection:
- "Nonfiction book review", Publishers Weekly
- Bonomo, Joe (2000), Creative Nonfiction, 16: 138–143, JSTOR 44362966
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Sutton, Jennifer (July–August 2000), "The maternal equation", Brown Alumni Magazine
- Heller, Scott (20 October 2000), "A historian's tale, and a mother's, too", The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Luhrmann, Tanya (21 January 2001), "Human Equation: A mathematician faces a world of uncertainties in her son's illness", The New York Times
- Rauff, James V. (March 2001), The Mathematics Teacher, 94 (3): 238, JSTOR 20870647
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Fox, Michael (November 2002), The Mathematical Gazette, 86 (507): 562–563, doi:10.2307/3621196, JSTOR 3621196, S2CID 186248043
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- ^ Review of The Invention of Physical Science:
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995), Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211, doi:10.1080/00033799500200191
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- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995), Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211, doi:10.1080/00033799500200191
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