Karen Parshall
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American historian of mathematics
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- Bachelors Mathematics University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Karen Hunger Parshall is an American historian of mathematics. She is the Commonwealth Professor of History and Mathematics at the University of Virginia with a joint appointment in the Corcoran Department of History and Department of Mathematics. From 2009 to 2012, Parshall was the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences in the College of Arts in Sciences at UVA, and from 2016 to 2019 she was the chair of the Corcoran Department of History.
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- The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community, 1876-1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore (1994) (105)
- Toward a History of Nineteenth-Century Invariant Theory (1989) (36)
- Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800--1945 (2002) (29)
- Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century (2014) (29)
- Joseph H. M. Wedderburn and the structure theory of algebras (1985) (27)
- James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World (1998) (23)
- The Art of Algebra from Al-Khwārizmī to Viète: A Study in the Natural Selection of Ideas (1988) (23)
- Eliakim Hastings Moore and the founding of a mathematical community in America, 1892–1902 (1984) (21)
- Defining a mathematical research school: the case of algebra at the University of Chicago, 1892¿1945 (2004) (18)
- Episodes in the history of modern algebra (1800-1950) (2011) (16)
- America's first school of mathematical research: James Joseph Sylvester at The Johns Hopkins University 1876–1883 (1988) (12)
- The American Mathematical Monthly (1894-1919): A New Journal in the Service of Mathematics and Its Educators (2016) (11)
- BUILDING AN INTERNATIONAL REPUTATION : THE CASE OF J. J. SYLVESTER (1814-1897) (1997) (11)
- James Joseph Sylvester: Life And Work In Letters (2013) (11)
- The rising sea: Grothendieck on simplicity and generality (2011) (10)
- A historical sketch of B. L. van der Waerden’s work in algebraic geometry: 1926–1946 (2011) (10)
- Years ago (1990) (10)
- Varieties as incipient species: Darwin's numerical analysis (1982) (10)
- Marshall Stone and the internationalization of the American mathematical research community (2009) (10)
- Training Women in Mathematical Research: The First Fifty Years of Bryn Mawr College (1885–1935) (2015) (10)
- Perspectives on American mathematics (2000) (10)
- Kronecker’s fundamental theorem of general arithmetic (2011) (9)
- Minkowski, Hensel, and Hasse: On the beginnings of the local-global principle (2011) (8)
- Mathematics in National Contexts (1875–1900): An International Overview (1995) (8)
- Internationalizing mathematics east and west: Individuals and institutions in the emergence of a modern mathematical community in China (2002) (7)
- “A New Era in the Development of Our Science”: The American Mathematical Research Community, 1920-1950 (2015) (7)
- Years ago (1991) (7)
- The Internationalization of Mathematics in a World of Nations : 100-1960 ” (2010) (6)
- The emergence of the Japanese mathematical community in the modern western style, 1855–1945 (2002) (6)
- ON WEDDERBURN’S THEOREM ABOUT FINITE DIVISION ALGEBRAS (2003) (6)
- The British development of the theory of invariants (1841–1895) (2006) (6)
- War, refugees, and the creation of an international mathematical community (2002) (6)
- “Very full of symbols”: Duncan F. Gregory, the calculus of operations, and the Cambridge Mathematical Journal (2011) (5)
- Ethnomathematics: A multicultural view of mathematical ideas: By Marcia Ascher. Pacific Grove, CA (Brooks/Cole Publishing Co.). 1991. xii + 203 pp. including Index (1992) (5)
- International mathematical contributions to British scientific journals, 1800–1900 (2002) (5)
- Victor kac and robert moody: their paths to kac-moody lie algebras (2002) (5)
- Charles Hermite and German mathematics in France (2002) (5)
- Years ago (1993) (4)
- The evolution of an international mathematical research community, 1800–1945: An overview and an agenda (2002) (4)
- Experiencing nature : proceedings of a conference in honor of Allen G. Debus (1997) (4)
- The effects of Nazi rule on the international participation of German mathematicians: An overview and two case studies (2002) (4)
- Taming the Unknown (2014) (4)
- George Boole: Selected Manuscripts on Logic and Its Philosophy (2002) (4)
- Years ago (1992) (3)
- A Study in Group Theory: Leonard Eugene Dickson''s Linear Groups (1991) (3)
- Spanish initiatives to bring mathematics in Spain into the international mainstream (2002) (3)
- The One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Invariant Theory? (2009) (3)
- Babbage and French Idéologie: Functional equations, language, and the analytical method (2011) (3)
- Gösta Mittag-Leffler and the foundation and administration of Acta Mathematica (2002) (3)
- The first international mathematical community: The Circolo matematico di Palermo (2002) (3)
- Chemistry Through Invariant Theory (1997) (3)
- From Algebra (1895) to Moderne Algebra (1930): Changing conceptions of a discipline—A guided tour using the Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (2011) (3)
- Chinese–U. S. mathematical relations, 1859–1949 (2002) (3)
- Convolutions in French mathematics, 1800–1840 (1992) (3)
- Changes on the horizon (1994) (3)
- How We Got Where We Are : An International Overview of Mathematics in National Contexts ( 1875-1900 ) (1997) (3)
- Mathematics Education in America in the Premodern Period (2014) (3)
- Years ago (1990) (3)
- Years ago (1990) (3)
- New Light on the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn (1882 – 1948) (1992) (3)
- The end of dominance: The diffusion of French mathematics elsewhere, 1820–1870 (2002) (2)
- A plurality of algebras, 1200–1600: Algebraic Europe from Fibonacci to Clavius1 (2017) (2)
- Divisibility theories in the early history of commutative algebra and the foundations of algebraic geometry (2011) (2)
- American initiatives toward internationalization: The case of Leonard Dickson (2002) (2)
- Ada: A life and a legacy: (MIT Press Series in the History of Computing, Vol. 3). By Dorothy Stein. Cambridge, MA/London (The MIT Press). 1985. xix + 321 pp. $9.95 (1989) (2)
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness (June 23, 1941-December 12, 2014) (2015) (2)
- Years Ago (1992) (2)
- Algebra e geometria (1860–1940): Il contributo italiano. Edited by Aldo Brigaglia, Ciro Ciliberto, and E. Sernesi. Supplemento ai Rendiconti del Circolo matematico di Palermo, Ser. 2, No. 36 (1994). Palermo (Circolo matematico di Palermo). 1994. 277 pp.☆ (1997) (2)
- The formation of the international mathematical union (2002) (2)
- The New Era in American Mathematics, 1920–1950 (2022) (2)
- Mathematics and the Politics of Race: The Case of William Claytor (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1933) (2016) (1)
- Years Ago (1992) (1)
- On the arithmetization of algebraic geometry (2011) (1)
- A MATHEMATICAL "G OOD NEIGHBOR ": MARSHALL STONE IN LATIN AMERICA (1943) (2007) (1)
- Research in algebra at the University of Chicago: Leonard Eugene Dickson and A. Adrian Albert (2011) (1)
- Problems and Solutions from "The Mathematical Visitor": 1877-1896 (1998) (1)
- Telling the Life of a Mathematician: The Case of J.J. Sylvester (1999) (1)
- The effects of war on France’s international role in mathematics, 1870–1914 (2002) (1)
- 9. The Growth of Algebraic Thought in Sixteenth-Century Europe (2014) (1)
- The History of Mathematics, the History of Science, Mathematics, andHistoria Mathematica (1996) (1)
- Mathematics Emerging: A Tribute to Jackie Stedall and her Influence on the History of Mathematics (2017) (0)
- Giovanni Battista Guccia: Pioneer of International Cooperation in Mathematics (2021) (0)
- The Genesis of the Abstract Group Concept: A Contribution to the History of the Origin of Abstract Group Theory. By Hans Wussing (1986) (0)
- Who Gave You the Epsilon?: Building an International Reputation: The Case of J. J. Sylvester (1814–1897) (2009) (0)
- 5. Algebraic Thought in Ancient and Medieval China (2014) (0)
- VI.42 James Joseph Sylvester (2010) (0)
- James Joseph Sylvester (2022) (0)
- 8. Transmission, Transplantation, and Diffusion in the Latin West (2014) (0)
- 3. The Ancient Greek World (2014) (0)
- Brian J. Parshall (October 28, 1945–January 17, 2022) (2022) (0)
- The International Commission for the History of Mathematics (ICHM): An introduction and a call to the international community of historians of mathematics (2003) (0)
- A History in Sum: 150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard, 1825-1975, by Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau (2014) (0)
- 2. Egypt and Mesopotamia (2014) (0)
- Alex D. D. Craik.Mr. Hopkins' Men: Cambridge Reform and British Mathematics in the Nineteenth Century. xiv + 405 pp., illus., table, apps., bibl., indexes. New York: Springer, 2008. $49.95 (paper). (2009) (0)
- An episode in the evolution of a mathematical community: The case of Cesare Arzelà at Bologna (2002) (0)
- 7. Algebraic Thought in Medieval Islam (2014) (0)
- Daniel J. Cohen.Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith. x + 242 pp., bibl., index. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. $50 (cloth). (2008) (0)
- 14. The Emergence of Modern Algebra (2014) (0)
- 13. Understanding the Properties of “Numbers” (2014) (0)
- Years ago (1991) (0)
- Years ago (1991) (0)
- Years ago (1990) (0)
- Years ago (1993) (0)
- The Roaring Twenties in American Mathematics (2019) (0)
- II.3 The Development of Abstract Algebra (2010) (0)
- BSHM Meeting News (2021) (0)
- 12. Understanding Polynomial Equations in n Unknowns (2014) (0)
- Bridging Traditions: Alchemy, Chemistry, and Paracelsian Practices in the Early Modern Era (2017) (0)
- Eloge: Allen George Debus, 16 August 1926–6 March 2009 (2010) (0)
- Photo of Mittag-Leffler (2002) (0)
- Book Review:Figures de l'infini: Les mathematiques au miroir des cultures Tony Levy (1988) (0)
- The American Mathematical Society and Applied Mathematics from the 1920s to the 1950s: A Revisionist Account (2022) (0)
- A new departmental prototype: J.J. Sylvester and the Johns Hopkins University (1994) (0)
- Mathematics at Sylvester’s Hopkins (1994) (0)
- 1. Prelude: What Is Algebra? (2014) (0)
- Thoughts and Thanks From the Outgoing Editors (1999) (0)
- The World’s Columbian exposition of 1893 and the Chicago mathematical congress (1994) (0)
- An overview of American mathematics: 1776-1876 (1994) (0)
- Emmy Noether’s 1932 ICM lecture on noncommutative methods in algebraic number theory (2011) (0)
- Meeting the challenge: The University of Chicago and the American mathematical research community (1994) (0)
- Languages for mathematics and the language of mathematics in a world of nations (2002) (0)
- 6. Algebraic Thought in Medieval India (2014) (0)
- The Story of Mathematics Reviewed by Karen Hunger Parshall (2002) (0)
- Training Women in Mathematical Research: The First Fifty Years of Bryn Mawr College (1885–1935) (2015) (0)
- German mathematics and the early mathematical career of Felix Klein (1994) (0)
- 10. From Analytic Geometry to the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra (2014) (0)
- 4. Later Alexandrian Developments (2014) (0)
- Epilogue: Beyond the threshold: The American mathematical research community, 1900-1933 (1994) (0)
- JMM 2019 Lecture Sampler (2019) (0)
- “Increasing the Utility of the Society”: The Colloquium Lectures of the American Mathematical Society (2015) (0)
- Mathematics of the 19th Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory, Probability Theory. A. N. Kolmogorov and A. P. Yushkevich (1994) (0)
- The fifth award of the Kenneth O. May Medal and Prize (2005) (0)
- R.L. Moore: Mathematician and Teacher, John Parker. Mathematical Association of America (2005), xvi + 386 pp. $49.95, ISBN: 0-88385-550-X (2007) (0)
- 11. Finding the Roots of Algebraic Equations (2014) (0)
- Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics . Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 307. ISBN 987-0-674-04661-0. £21.95 (hardback). (2011) (0)
- BSHM Meeting News (2022) (0)
- Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science, and Philosophy. Mark Kac , Gian-Carlo Rota , Jacob T. Schwartz , Harry Newman (1989) (0)
- Changes Underway atHistoria Mathematica (1997) (0)
- Note from the managing editor (1995) (0)
- Developments in the theory of algebras over number fields: A new foundation for the Hasse norm residue symbol and new approaches to both the Artin reciprocity law and class field theory (2011) (0)
- A Mathematical Snapshot: The University of Rochester, 1933–1936 (2023) (0)
- Surveying mathematical landscapes: The Evanston colloquium lectures (1994) (0)
- Training Research Mathematicians circa 1900 (2021) (0)
- Recent Developments on Introducing a Historical Dimension in Mathematics Education: The Evolution of a Community of Mathematical Researchers in North America: 1636–1950 (2011) (0)
- Photo of Charles Hermite (2002) (0)
- Mathematical communities (1998) (0)
- Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen;, Stig Andur Pedersen;, Lise Mariane Sonne‐Hansen (Editors).New Trends in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics. (University of Southern Denmark Studies in Philosophy, 19.) 161 pp., illus. Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004. (2005) (0)
- Speaking to the Public: Mathematicians on American Radio, the 1920s through the 1940s (2023) (0)
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