Annette Imhausen
Annette Imhausen (also known as Annette Warner, born 12 June 1970) is a German historian of mathematics known for her work on Ancient Egyptian mathematics. She is a professor in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence at Goethe University Frankfurt.[1]
Education and career
Imhausen studied mathematics, chemistry, and Egyptology at
She held a fellowship at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology (Cambridge, MA) before she received a Junior Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge from 2003 to 2006. She returned to Mainz as an assistant professor from 2006 to 2008, and became a professor at Frankfurt in 2009.[1]
Contributions
Imhausen is featured in the BBC TV series The Story of Maths.[3]
Her dissertation, Ägyptische Algorithmen. Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten, was published by Harrassowitz Verlag in 2002 (Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, vol. 65).[1][4] She is also the author of Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History (Princeton University Press, 2016).[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Warner (Imhausen), Annette, Prof. Dr.", Normative Orders, Goethe University Frankfurt, retrieved 2018-11-05
- ^ Annette Imhausen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- IMDb
- ^ Reviews of Ägyptische Algorithmen. Eine Untersuchung zu den mittelägyptischen mathematischen Aufgabentexten:
- Depuydt, Leo (October–December 2003), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 123 (4): 877–880, )
- Gundlach, K.-B. (2004), Mathematical Reviews, )
- Robson, Eleanor (2004), "Review" (PDF), Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science, 1 (1): 73–79, archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-04-28, retrieved 2018-11-06
- doi:10.1016/j.hm.2003.08.005)
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - Quack, Joachim Friedrich (2005), Die Welt des Orients, 35: 202–204, )
- ^ Reviews of Mathematics in Ancient Egypt: A Contextual History:
- Nogueira, Joaquim Eurico Anes Duarte, Mathematical Reviews, )
- Pambuccian, Victor, European Mathematical Society Newsletter101: 57, 2016
- Jongsma, Calvin (June 2016), "Review", MAA Reviews
- Van Brummelen, Glen (September 2016), "Review" (PDF), Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society, 461: 40–41
- Jansen, Martine (2017), "Review" (PDF), Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, 5th Series, 18 (1): 73–74
- Prince, Clive (January 2017), "Counting like an Egyptian", Magonia Review of Books
- Davis, Kevin (February 2017), The Mathematical Gazette, 101 (550): 163–165, )
- Criddle, Alex (May 2017), "Review", World History Encyclopedia
- Cumo, Christopher (July 2017), Canadian Journal of History, 52 (2): 396–398, )
- Moreno-Castillo, Ricardo (July 2017), "Review", European Mathematical Society Reviews
- Chrisomalis, Stephen (October 2017), Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 76 (2): 372–375, doi:10.1086/693357)
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: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - Rindler, H. (September 2018), Monatshefte für Mathematik, 187 (3): 573–575, )