David Fowler (mathematician)

David Fowler
File:David H. Fowler.jpg
Born	(1937-04-28)28 April 1937 Blackburn, England
Died	13 April 2004(2004-04-13) (aged 66) Warwick, England
Alma mater	Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Occupation	Mathematician
Known for	Greek mathematics
Scientific career
Institutions	Manchester University University of Warwick

David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis). He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock.

Fowler was also the translator of René Thom's book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis from French (Stabilité strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.

References

• Obituary in The Guardian, 3 May 2004 by Christopher Zeeman.
• Obituary Archived 31 March 2017 at the Wayback Machine in The Independent, 24 May 2004.

External links

• Bibliography Archived 25 November 2005 at the Wayback Machine
• Book Review Archived 9 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine by Fernando Q. Gouvêa of The Mathematics of Plato's Academy Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• Memorial symposium Archived 5 December 2004 at the Wayback Machine organized in his honor at Warwick, 9 November 2004.