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
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
- 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
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
-
^ Review of The Invention of Physical Science:
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995),
Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211,
doi:
10.1080/00033799500200191
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995),
Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211,
doi:
10.1080/00033799500200191
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
- 1948 births
- Living people
- American historians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- American historians of mathematics
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Brown University faculty
- 20th-century American women
- 21st-century American women
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
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
- 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
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
-
^ Review of The Invention of Physical Science:
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995),
Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211,
doi:
10.1080/00033799500200191
{{ citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)
- Smith, Crosbie (March 1995),
Annals of Science, 52 (2): 209–211,
doi:
10.1080/00033799500200191
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| Academics | |
| Other | |
- 1948 births
- Living people
- American historians
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American women mathematicians
- American historians of mathematics
- Radcliffe College alumni
- Harvard University alumni
- Brown University faculty
- 20th-century American women
- 21st-century American women