Amir Alexander
Israeli historian
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- PhD History Tel Aviv University
- Masters History Tel Aviv University
- Bachelors History Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Amir Alexander is a historian, author, and academic who studies the interconnections between mathematics and its cultural and historical setting. Early life and education Born in Rehovot, Israel, he grew up in Jerusalem where his father, Shlomo Alexander, was a professor of physics at the UCLA and the Hebrew University and his mother, Esther Alexander, was an economist and social activist. He obtained a B.S. from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988 in mathematics and history, before moving to the United States, where he obtained an M.A. in history of science from Stanford University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history of science from Stanford University in 1996.
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- Infinitesimal: How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World (2014) (49)
- The imperialist space of Elizabethan mathematics (1995) (44)
- Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice (2002) (17)
- Two cultures: Essays in honour of David Speiser (2008) (15)
- Tragic Mathematics (2006) (10)
- Lunar maps and coastal outlines: Thomas Hariot's mapping of the moon (1998) (9)
- Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics (2010) (5)
- On Indivisibles and Infinitesimals: A Response to David Sherry, “The Jesuits and the Method of Indivisibles” (2018) (4)
- Exploration Mathematics: The Rhetoric of Discovery and the Rise of Infinitesimal Methods (2001) (4)
- The Skeleton in the Closet: Should Historians of Science Care about the History of Mathematics? (2011) (3)
- The secret spiritual history of calculus. (2014) (3)
- From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals: Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities. Antoni Malet (1998) (3)
- Examining the Tectonic Wedging Hypothesis in the NW India Himalaya (2008) (2)
- Romantic Narratives and the Refounding of Mathematics in the Early Nineteenth Century (2007) (1)
- On Indivisibles and Infinitesimals: A Response to David Sherry, “The Jesuits and the Method of Indivisibles” (2017) (1)
- Mathematics: Groping in the dark for glimpses of beauty (2015) (1)
- Chapter 1. From Voyagers to Martyrs Toward a Storied History of Mathematics (2012) (0)
- Introduction (2006) (0)
- NOEL MALCOLM and JACQUELINE STEDALL (eds.), John Pell (1611-1685) and His Correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish. The Mental World of an Early Modern Mathematician. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 664 pp., ISBN: 0-19-856484-8. (2006) (0)
- Notes on Contributors (2006) (0)
- The Estrangement of the American Landscape (2018) (0)
- Stephen Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation: A Comparative History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. (2012) (0)
- The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science (2010) (0)
- Benjamin Wardhaugh, How to Read Historical Mathematics . Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. Pp. xii+116. ISBN 978-0-691-14014-8. $22.95 (hardback). (2011) (0)
- Review (2010) (0)
- The Spatial Reformation: Euclid between Man, Cosmos, and God. By Michael J. Sauter. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. Pp. xvi+328. $89.95. (2022) (0)
- When mathematics mattered (2013) (0)
- FOCUS : MATHEMATICAL STORIES Introduction By (2007) (0)
- Michael E. Hobart. The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide. (2019) (0)
- Mark Coeckelbergh. New Romantic Cyborgs: Romanticism, Information Technology, and the End of the Machine. x + 320 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2017. $50 (cloth). (2018) (0)
- Robert Fox (Editor).Thomas Harriot and His World: Mathematics, Exploration, and Natural Philosophy in Early Modern England. xvi + 255 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. Surrey: Ashgate, 2012. $124.95 (cloth). (2013) (0)
- A Response to Douglas Jesseph (2017) (0)
- Stories and Numbers: How a Romantic Tale of Geographical Exploration Transformed Mathematics (2012) (0)
- When mathematics mattered (2013) (0)
- Robert Goulding. Defending Hypatia: Ramus, Savile, and the Renaissance Rediscovery of Mathematical History. (Archimedes: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, number 25.) New York: Springer. 2010. Pp. xx, 201. $99.95 (2012) (0)
- Israeli Television and the Problem of the Modern Subject (1995) (0)
- Review: The Shape of Content: Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science by Chandler Davis; Marjorie Wikler Senechal; Jan Zwicky (2010) (0)
- La secreta historia espiritual del cálculo (2014) (0)
- A Response to Douglas Jesseph (2017) (0)
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