Judith Grabiner
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Judith Victor Grabiner (born about 1938) is an American mathematician who is among the best-known historians of mathematics. She earned her B.S. in mathematics at the University of Chicago in 1960 and her M.A. (1962) and Ph.D. (1966) in the history of science at Harvard University, and is currently Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics at Pitzer College. She previously taught at California State University, Dominguez Hills. Her book The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus explores the background in which the limit definition was developed. [1] Another book on the work of Joseph Louis Lagrange discusses related material. She has won a variety of awards. She is married to fellow mathematician Sandy Grabiner of Pomona College.
[edit] References
- ^ Gabiner, Judith V. (1981). The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus. Dover, 40-42. ISBN 0486438155.
[edit] External links
- C.V. of Judith Grabiner
- American Scientist entry from Sigma Xi
