David Fowler (mathematician)
David Fowler | |
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Born | Blackburn, England | 28 April 1937
Died | 13 April 2004 Warwick, England | (aged 66)
Alma mater | Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge |
Occupation | Mathematician |
Known for | Greek mathematics |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Manchester University University of Warwick |
David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called ). He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock.
Fowler was also the translator of René Thom's book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis from French (Stabilité strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.
References[]
- Obituary in The Guardian, 3 May 2004 by Christopher Zeeman.
- Obituary in The Independent, 24 May 2004.
External links[]
- Bibliography
- Book Review by Fernando Q. Gouvêa of The Mathematics of Plato's Academy
- Memorial symposium organized in his honor at Warwick, 9 November 2004.
Categories:
- Historians of mathematics
- 20th-century British mathematicians
- 21st-century British mathematicians
- 1937 births
- 2004 deaths
- Academics of the University of Warwick
- Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
- People educated at Rossall School