Moritz Epple
German mathematician
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Moritz Epple's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics University of Bonn
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Moritz Epple is a German mathematician and historian of science. Biography Epple studied mathematics, philosophy and physics in Copenhagen, London, and at the University of Tübingen, where he received in 1987 his bachelor's degree in physics and in 1991 his Ph.D. in mathematical physics. He then became an assistant in the history of mathematics and natural sciences at the University of Mainz, where he received in 1998 his Habilitation. From 2001 to 2003 he was the head of the department of history of the natural sciences and technology at the University of Stuttgart. Since 2003 he has been a professor at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and head of the working group for the modern history of science at the historic seminary there. He was a visiting professor at several academic institutions including the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin.
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- Topology, Matter, and Space, I: Topological Notions in 19th-Century Natural Philosophy (1998) (48)
- Knot Invariants in Vienna and Princeton during the 1920s: Epistemic Configurations of Mathematical Research (2004) (31)
- CHAPTER 11 – Geometric Aspects in the Development of Knot Theory (1999) (25)
- Branch Points of Algebraic Functions and the Beginnings of Modern Knot Theory (1995) (19)
- Between Timelessness and Historiality: On the Dynamics of the Epistemic Objects of Mathematics (2011) (13)
- Styles of Argumentation in Late 19th Century Geometry and the Structure of Mathematical Modernity (1997) (11)
- From “Mixed” to “Applied” Mathematics: Tracing an important dimension of mathematics and its history (2013) (11)
- Science as Cultural Practice (2010) (9)
- From Quaternions to Cosmology: Spaces of Constant Curvature, ca. 1873-1925 (2003) (7)
- Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture (2011) (6)
- Did Brouwer’s Intuitionistic Analysis Satisfy Its Own Epistemological Standards? (2000) (6)
- Aerodynamics and Mathematics in National Socialist Germany and Fascist Italy: A Comparison of Research Institutes (2005) (6)
- An unusual career between cultural and mathematical modernism : Felix Hausdorff, 1868-1942 (2007) (5)
- The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under National Socialism: Calculation, Measurement, and Leadership: War Research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fluid Dynamics, 1937–1945 (2009) (2)
- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices (2010) (1)
- Communism in Washington State History and Memory (2014) (1)
- Mini-Workshop: History of Mathematics in Germany, 1920-1960 (2010) (0)
- Alexandre Métraux Leaves Editorship of Science in Context (2013) (0)
- Yehuda Elkana (1934–2012) (2013) (0)
- Between appropriation and rejection: Translating D'Alembert into German, and D'Alembert on translation (2017) (0)
- Turmoil and Transition: Tracing Émigré Mathematicians in the Twentieth Century (2015) (0)
- The Gap Between Theory And Practice: Hydrodynamical And Hydraulical Utopias In The 18th Century (2008) (0)
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