Judith V. Field
Judith V. Field | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Judith Veronica Field |
Academic background | |
Imperial College, London | |
Thesis | Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | A. Rupert Hall |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | History of mathematics |
Judith Veronica Field (born 1943) is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London,[1] former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics,[2] and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.[3]
Education and career
Field earned a PhD in 1981 at Imperial College of the University of London; her dissertation, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology,[4] was supervised by A. Rupert Hall,[5] and later became one of her books.[6]
She was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics for 1997–1999.[2] She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1988, and a full member in 1998.[7]
Books
Field is the author of books including:
- The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues (with J. J. Gray, Springer, 1987)[8]
- Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (Athlone Press, 1988; Bloomsbury, 2013)[6]
- The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford University Press and Princeton University Press, 1997)[9]
- Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery That Illustrate the History of Science and Technology (with Frank A. J. L. James, British Society for the History of Science, 1997)[10]
- Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art (Yale University Press, 2005)[11]
- Byzantine and Arabic Mathematical Gearing (with D. R. Hill and M. T. Wright, Science Museum London, 1985)
She is the co-editor of:
- Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (with Frank A. J. L. James, Cambridge University Press, 1993)[12]
- Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (I. J. Good, D. Michie, and G. Timms (1945), edited by J. Reeds, W. Diffie, and J.V. Field, IEEE and Wiley, 2015)[13]
She is also a translator of:
- Mathematics and Mathematicians (P. Dedron and J. Itard, two vols., Transworld, 1974 and Open University Press, 1978).[14]
- The Harmony of the World (Johannes Kepler, translated into English with an introduction and notes, by E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan and J. V. Field; Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 209, Philadelphia, 1997)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Theory of Conics, Geometrical Constructions and Practical Geometry (A history of Arabic Science and mathematics, vol. 3, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2013)
- Ibn al-Haytham, New Spherical Geometry and Astronomy (A history of Arabic science and mathematics, vol. 4, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2014)
- Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics (A history of Arabic science and mathematics, vol. 5, Roshdi Rashed, Routledge, 2017)
References
- ^ "Field, J. V.", Encyclopedia.com, Cengage, retrieved 2020-09-03
- ^ a b History of the BSHM, British Society for the History of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-09-03
- ^ Leonardo da Vinci Society, Birkbeck, University of London, retrieved 2020-11-30
- ^ Judith V. Field at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Professor Alfred Rupert Hall and Dr Marie Boas Hall" (PDF), Obituaries, Reporter, no. 204, Imperial College London, p. 14, 30 April 2009
- ^ a b Reviews of Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology:
- Wilson, Curtis (September 1988), )
- Shea, William R. (1989), Zbl 1091.01500)
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- Moran, Bruce T. (Spring 1989), )
- Barker, Peter; Ariew, Roger (June 1989), )
- Apt, Adam J. (October 1989), "Keplerian cosmology", S2CID 125903971
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- Harman, P. M. (1990), "Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology",
- Keller, Alex (December 1990), Renaissance Studies, 4 (4): 441–444, )
- Rabin, Sheila J. (May 1991), doi:10.1016/0315-0860(91)90508-u)
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- ^ Reviews of The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues:
- Soare, N., Zbl 0607.01026)
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- Rosenfeld, B. (1988), )
- Turner, A. J. (March 1988), )
- ^ Reviews of The Invention of Infinity:
- Edgerton, Samuel Y. (November 1997), "Painting by numbers", S2CID 4346650
- Zbl 0893.01003)
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- Edgerton, Samuel Y. (November 1997), "Painting by numbers",
- White, John (October 1998), )
- Elsig, Frédéric (1999), Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et Renaissance (in French), 61 (1): 217–219, )
- Raven, Diederick (June 1999), )
- Peterson, Mark (June 1999), Nexus Network Journal, 1 (1–2): 163–166, doi:10.1007/s00004-998-0017-x)
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- Phillips, Anthony (January 2000), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 47 (1): 46–50
- Massey, Lyle (September 2001), )
- Benbow, Peter K. (September 2018), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
- ^ Reviews of Science in Art:
- Hill, C. R. (October 1998), Annals of Science, 55 (4): 425–427, doi:10.1080/00033799800200271)
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- Hill, C. R. (October 1998), Annals of Science, 55 (4): 425–427,
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- ^ Reviews of Piero Della Francesca:
- Dabell, Frank (November 2005), )
- Mann, Tony (December 2005), "Review" (PDF), Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society, 343: 30–31
- Emmer, Michele (March 2007), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 54 (3): 372–379
- Katz, Dana E.; )
- ^ Reviews of Renaissance and Revolution:
- Chapman, A. (February 1995), The Observatory, vol. 115 (1124 ed.), p. 49, Bibcode:1995Obs...115...49C
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- Chapman, A. (February 1995), The Observatory, vol. 115 (1124 ed.), p. 49,
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- Gouk, Penelope (November 1996), )
- Dixon, C. Scott (September 1997), "Urban culture and court culture in the European past", S2CID 159971790
- Rouvray, Dennis H. (January 1998), doi:10.1016/s0160-9327(99)80014-3)
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- ^ Review of Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park:
- Christensen, Chris (September 2020), Cryptologia, 45: 88–93, )
- ^ Reviews of Mathematics and Mathematicians:
- Lockwood, E. H. (June 1976), )
- Jones, Phillip S. (August 1976), "Mathematics and mathematicians", hdl:2027.42/21708
- Schlapp, R. (March 1977), doi:10.1017/s0013091500026390)
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