Judith V. Field | |
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Born | 1943 (age 80–81) |
Nationality | British |
Other names | Judith Veronica Field |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | 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]
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]
Field is the author of books including:
She is the co-editor of:
She is also a translator of:
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