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]
Imhausen studied mathematics, chemistry, and Egyptology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, passing the Staatsexamen in 1996. She then continued her studies in Egyptology and Assyriology at the Freie Universität Berlin. In 2002, She completed her doctorate in the history of mathematics at Mainz under the joint supervision of David E. Rowe and James Ritter. [2]
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]
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]
The Moscow Mathematical Papyrus, also named the Golenishchev Mathematical Papyrus after its first non-Egyptian owner, Egyptologist Vladimir Golenishchev, is an ancient Egyptian mathematical papyrus containing several problems in arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. Golenishchev bought the papyrus in 1892 or 1893 in Thebes. It later entered the collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, where it remains today.
Helmut Satzinger is an Austrian Egyptologist and Coptologist. He studied Egyptology, Arabic Philology and African Languages at the university of Vienna and, for 1 year, at Cairo University. Immediately after obtaining his PhD degree in 1964, he became commissioned to catalogue and publish Coptic papyri in the West Berlin section of the Egyptian Museum of Berlin.
Ingo Wegener was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science.
Helene (Hel) Braun was a German mathematician who specialized in number theory and modular forms. Her autobiography, The Beginning of A Scientific Career, described her experience as a female scientist working in a male-dominated field at the time, in the Third Reich.
Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.
Amy Shell-Gellasch is a mathematician, historian of mathematics, and book author. She has written or edited the books
Christina Birkenhake is a German mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry. She is a lecturer at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, in the research group on algebra and geometry.
Renate A. Tobies is a German mathematician and historian of mathematics known for her biographies of Felix Klein and Iris Runge.
Amy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change.
Judita Cofman (1936–2001) was a Yugoslav-German mathematician, the first person to earn a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Novi Sad. She was known for her work in finite geometry and for her books aimed at young mathematicians.
Claudia Klüppelberg is a German mathematical statistician and applied probability theorist, known for her work in risk assessment and statistical finance. She is a professor emerita of mathematical statistics at the Technical University of Munich.
Anita Burdman Feferman was an American historian of mathematics and biographer, known for her biographies of Jean van Heijenoort and of Alfred Tarski.
Serafina Cuomo is an Italian historian and professor at Durham University. Cuomo specialises in the history of ancient mathematics, including the computing practices in ancient Rome and Pappos, and also with the history of technology.
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell is an American historian of science, the curator of medicine and science at the National Museum of American History.
Catherine Bandle is a Swiss mathematician known for her research on differential equations, including semilinear elliptic equations and reaction-diffusion equations, and for her book on isoperimetric inequalities. She is a professor emerita of mathematics at the University of Basel.
Judith Veronica Field 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, former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.
Lesley B. Cormack is a Canadian historian of science and academic administrator specializing in the history of mathematics and of geography. She is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of British Columbia's Okanagan Campus.
Sonja Brentjes is a German historian of science, historian of mathematics, and historian of cartography known for her work on mapmapking and mathematics in medieval Islam.
Margaret E. Baron was a British mathematics educator and historian of mathematics known for her book on the history of calculus.
Corinna Rossi is an Italian Egyptologist known for her works on Ancient Egyptian mathematics and Ancient Egyptian architecture, on the archaeology of the Kharga Oasis, and on related topics in the history of Egypt and the Levant.
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