Jeanne Peiffer (born 20 August 1948 in
Mersch
Mersch ( ) is a commune and town in central Luxembourg, capital of the canton of Mersch. It is situated at the confluence of the rivers Alzette, Mamer and Eisch.
, the town of Mersch, which lies in the centre of the commune, has a population o ...
) is a Luxembourg
historian of mathematics.
Contributions
She deals with scientific journals in the 17th and 18th centuries, also from a scientific sociological point of view and with the aspect of the history of the specialization of mathematics journals, with perspective in the Renaissance in connection with geometry and optics, and the letter as a communication tool of mathematics in the 18th century.
She was co-editor (with ) of the correspondence of
Johann Bernoulli (Birkhäuser 1988, 1992) and published a French translation of the geometry of
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (; ; hu, Ajtósi Adalbert; 21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) ''Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers'', Walter de Gruyter. . sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Due ...
. With
Amy Dahan, she wrote a popular French-language textbook of mathematics, translated into English and German.
From 1995 to 2015 she was co-editor of the ' and co-editor of ''
Historia Mathematica
''Historia Mathematica: International Journal of History of Mathematics'' is an academic journal on the history of mathematics published by Elsevier. It was established by Kenneth O. May in 1971 as the free newsletter ''Notae de Historia Mathemat ...
''.
Education and career
Peiffer studied at the University of Luxembourg where she is a professor after being a student of
René Taton
René Taton (4 April 1915 – 9 August 2004) was a French author, historian of science, and long co-editor (along with Suzanne Delorme) of the ''Revue d'histoire des sciences''.
Life
He was born on 4 April 1915 in L'Échelle.
He died on 9 ...
. She is Emeritus Research Director at the
CNRS
The French National Centre for Scientific Research (french: link=no, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS) is the French state research organisation and is the largest fundamental science agency in Europe.
In 2016, it employed 31,637 ...
and the Center Alexandre Koyré of the CNRS and the
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (french: École des hautes études en sciences sociales; EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The ...
(EHESS).
Publications
*with Amy Dahan-Dalmédico: Une histoire des mathématiques, Routes et Dédales, éditions Études vivantes
Routes et dédales
Québec, 1982, Éditions du Seuil, Paris, , 1986, 4th edition 2001
**German translation: Wege und Irrwege – eine Geschichte der Mathematik, Birkhäuser 1994, Springer 2014
*Herausgeberin und Übersetzerin: Albrecht Dürer, Géométrie, Ed. du Seuil 1995 (also translated into Spanish)
*Faire des mathématiques par lettres, Revue d'histoire des mathématiques IV/1, 1998, pp. 143–157
*with Jean-Pierre Vittu: Les journaux savants, formes de la communication et agents de la construction des savoirs (xviie – xviiie siècles), Dix-huitième siècle, volume 40, 2008, pp. 281–300.
*Constructing perspective in sixteenth-century Nuremberg, in: Mario Carpo, Frédérique Lemerle (publisher), Perspective, Projections & Design. Technologies of Architectural Representation, London & New York : Routledge, 2007, pp. 65–76
References
External links
Jeanne Peiffer
on Centre Alexandre-Koyré
Jeanne Peiffer
on Babelio
on CAIRN
Jeanne Peiffer
at l'Harmattan
Notice in English
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1948 births
Living people
Historians of mathematics
Academic staff of the University of Luxembourg
20th-century Luxembourgian historians
21st-century Luxembourgian historians
Luxembourgian women historians
21st-century Luxembourgian women writers
20th-century Luxembourgian women writers
Research directors of the French National Centre for Scientific Research