Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is anAmericanmathematician andhistorian of mathematics, who is Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor Emerita of Mathematics atPitzer College, one of theClaremont Colleges.[1] Her main interest is in mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.[2]
Education
editGrabiner completed aBachelor of Science degree at theUniversity of Chicago in 1960. She was a graduate student in thehistory of science atHarvard University, completing aMaster of Arts in 1962 and aPh.D. in 1966, underI. Bernard Cohen.[3] Her PhD dissertation was on Italian mathematicianJoseph-Louis Lagrange.[4]
Career
editGrabiner was an instructor at Harvard for several years, before she and her husband Sandy Grabiner moved to California.[5] She was a professor of history atCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills from 1972 to 1985.[3]
Grabiner joined the mathematics department atPitzer College in 1985, and has been theFlora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics since 1994.[1] Her teaching includes courses on thehistory of mathematics, mathematics in different cultures, andmathematics and philosophy.[1]
Recognition
editGrabiner received theCarl B. Allendoerfer Award for the best article inMathematics Magazine in 1984, 1989, and 1996, and theLester R. Ford Award in 1984, 1998, 2005, and 2010, for the best article inAmerican Mathematical Monthly.[6][7]
In 2003, Grabiner received one of theMathematical Association of America'sDeborah and Franklin Haimo Awards for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics.[8] She became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society in 2012.[9] In 2014, she was awarded theBeckenbach Book Prize.[10]
She was the 2021 winner of theAlbert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of theAmerican Mathematical Society "for her outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, in particular her works on Cauchy, Lagrange, and MacLaurin; her widely-recognized gift for expository writing; and a distinguished career of teaching, lecturing, and numerous publications promoting a better understanding of mathematics and the significant roles it plays in culture generally".[11]
Books
edit- Grabiner, Judith V. (1981).The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus.Dover (reprint); orig.MIT Press.ISBN 0-486-43815-5.[12]
- Grabiner, Judith V. (1990).The Calculus as Algebra: J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813.Garland Science.ISBN 978-0-82407-448-7.
References
edit- ^abc"Judith V. Grabiner".Faculty Directory and Profiles. Pitzer College. October 12, 2016. RetrievedOctober 4, 2017.
- ^Ronald Calinger (1 January 1996).Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching. Cambridge University Press. p. 340.ISBN 978-0-88385-097-8.
- ^ab"Short Curriculum Vitae: Judith Victor Grabiner"(PDF).Profile: Judith V. Grabiner. Pitzer College. April 2012. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on October 5, 2017. RetrievedOctober 4, 2017.
- ^"The calculus as algebra: J.-L. LaGrange, 1736-1813".Harvard University Library. Harvard University. 1966. RetrievedOctober 4, 2017.
- ^Tsang, Derek (March 2014)."Beauty in numbers".University of Chicago Magazine. Chicago. RetrievedOctober 4, 2017.
- ^Mathematical Association of America – Carl B. Allendoerfer Awards
- ^Mathematical Association of America – Judith Grabiner Wins MAA's Ford Award for the Fourth Time
- ^"Professor Judith V. Grabiner, Ph.D."The Great Courses. The Teaching Company, LLC. 2017. RetrievedOctober 4, 2017.
- ^List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ^Mathematical Association of America – Beckenbach Book Prize
- ^Dunne, Edward."JMM Prizes and Awards 2021". American Mathematical Society.
- ^Waterhouse, William C. (1982)."Review ofThe origins of Cauchy's rigorous calculus by Judith V. Grabiner;Équations différentielles ordinaires: Ordinary differential equations by Augustin Louis Cauchy".Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.).7:634–638.doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1982-15075-3.
- ^Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (September 11, 2014)."Review ofA Historian Looks Back: The Calculus as Algebra and Selected Writings by Judith V. Grabiner".MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
External links
edit- Dumbaugh, Della; Rice, Adrian (March 2020)."A Template for Success: Celebrating the Work of Judith Grabiner"(PDF).Notices of the American Mathematical Society.67 (3):336–343.doi:10.1090/noti2035.