June Barrow-Green (born 1953) is a Professor of History of Mathematics at the

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and a Visiting Professor at the

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Education

Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1989, both from

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. In 1993 she gained a PhD in Mathematics from the

, under supervision of

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, on ''Poincaré and the Three Body Problem''.

Career

From 1993 to the present Barrow-Green has worked at the Open University, receiving a professorship in 2015. From 2003 to 2005 she was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. From 2007 to 2018 she was an elected member of the Council of the

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and during that period she served as the Librarian for the society. In 2014 Barrow-Green was awarded the first Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence for her article ''An American Goes to Europe: Three Letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914'' in

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. In 2018 she took part in a discussion panel on ''The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective'' at the

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2018, Rio de Janeiro, which was chaired by the English mathematician

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and also featured the French mathematician

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and the Argentine physicist . She chairs the Executive Committee of the

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. In August 2021

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awarded her its Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal "for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics".

Selected publications

* * * *Reviews of ''Poincaré and the three body problem'': * * * * * * *

References

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,
Euclid's Elements
', April 2016. June Barrow-Green on the expert panel with

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and Serafina Cuomo. {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrow-Green, June British women mathematicians British women academics Academics of the Open University Living people 1953 births