Helena Pycior
Helena Mary Pycior | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 (age 78–79) |
| Alma mater | Cornell University |
| Occupation | historian |
Helena Mary Pycior (born 1947)[1] is an American historian known for her works in the history of mathematics, Marie Curie, and human-animal relations. She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2]
Education
[edit | edit source]Pycior has a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in history, both from Cornell University.[2] Her 1976 doctoral dissertation was titled The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra.[3]
Books
[edit | edit source]Pycior is the author of the book Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Cambridge University Press, 1997),[4] and the coeditor of Creative Couples in the Sciences (with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am, Rutgers University Press, 1996).[5]
References
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- ^ WorldCat catalog entry for The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra, retrieved 2020-09-04
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- 1947 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American historians of mathematics
- Cornell University alumni
- University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
- American women historians
- 20th-century American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women mathematicians
- American science historian stubs