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Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944,
Santa Monica
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) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the
Graduate Center
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of the
City University of New York. He obtained his PhD from
Harvard University
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.
His fields of expertise are the
history of science, the
history of mathematics
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, the
scientific revolution
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, the
sociology of science
The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociolog ...
,
intellectual history, the 17th and 18th centuries, the
history of Chinese science, and the
history of botany
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Rudimentary b ...
.
Positions
Dauben is a 1980
Guggenheim fellow
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.
He is a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the
New York Academy of Sciences
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(since 1982).
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, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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. Accessed 27 May 2011
Dauben is an elected member (1991) of the
International Academy of the History of Science The International Academy of the History of Science (french: Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences) is a membership organization for historians of science.
The academy was founded on 17 August 1928 at the Congress of Historical Science b ...
and an elected foreign member (2001) of
German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
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.
In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the
International Commission on the History of Mathematics
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.
Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998
International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on
Karl Marx's mathematical work.
The creator of
non-standard analysis
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,
Abraham Robinson
Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorp ...
was the subject of Dauben's 1995 book ''Abraham Robinson''. It was reviewed positively by
Moshé Machover
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, but the review noted that it avoids discussing any of Robinson's negative aspects, and "in this respect
he book
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borders on the hagiographic, painting a portrait without warts."
In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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.
New Faculty
''365 Fifth'', April 2004, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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. Accessed 27 May 2011
Publications
* 1979: ''Georg Cantor, His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite'', Harvard University Press
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, reprinted 1989 by Princeton University Press
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* 1995: ''Abraham Robinson, The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey'', Princeton University Press
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Articles, reviews, and essays
* 1985: "Abraham Robinson and Nonstandard Analysis: History, Philosophy, and Foundations of Mathematics", in William Aspray and Philip Kitcher, eds. ''History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics'', pages 177–200, Minnesota Studies in Philososphy of Science XI, University of Minnesota Press
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, 1988. Onlin
here
* 1991: "La Matematica," in W. Shea editor, ''Storia delle Scienze. LeScienze Fisiche e Astronomiche'' (Milano: Banca Popolare di Milano, and Einaudi, 1992) pp. 258–280
* 1992: "Are There Revolutions in Mathematics?" in ''The Space of Mathematics'' (editors J. Echieverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann) (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 203–226.
* 1992: "Conceptual Revolutions and the History of Mathematics: Two Studies in the Growth of Knowledge", Chapter 4 of D. Gillies, editor, ''Revolutions in Mathematics'', Clarendon Press
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pp. 49–71.
* 1992: "Revolutions Revisited", Chapter 5 of D. Gillies, editor, ''Revolutions in Mathematics
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''Revolutions in Mathematics'' is a 1992 collection of essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
Contents
*Michael J. Crowe, Ten "laws" concerning patterns of change in the history of mathematics (1975) (15–20);
*Herbe ...
'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 72–82.
* 2008: "Suan shu shu. A book on numbers and computations", translated from the Chinese and with commentary by Joseph W. Dauben. Archive for History of Exact Sciences
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62(2): 91–178.
See also
*Criticism of non-standard analysis Nonstandard analysis and its offshoot, nonstandard calculus, have been criticized by several authors, notably Errett Bishop, Paul Halmos, and Alain Connes. These criticisms are analyzed below.
Introduction
The evaluation of nonstandard analysis i ...
References
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Harvard University alumni
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American historians of mathematics
1944 births
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Lehman College faculty
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