Mary Croarken

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Mary G. Croarken is a British independent scholar and author in the history of mathematics and the history of computing.

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Education and career

Croarken earned a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick in 1982 and a doctorate in the history of science there in 1986, [1] [2] supervised by Martin Campbell-Kelly, who describes her as one of his two most successful students. [3]

After leaving academia to raise a family in Norwich, [2] [3] she became a health research manager in the National Health Service, [3] [4] while continuing to work in the history of science as an independent scholar. She has been a research fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and in the computer science department at the University of Warwick. [1]

Books

Croarken is the author of the book Early Scientific Computing in Britain (Clarendon Press, 1990). [5] She is a co-editor of The History of Mathematical Tables: from Sumer to Spreadsheets (Oxford University Press, 2003) [6] and of Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2020) [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Mary Croarken", IEEE Xplore, retrieved 2023-01-17
  2. 1 2 Reviewer biography, Reviews, Peggy Kidwell, ed., IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (2): 77, 1996.
  3. 1 2 3 Aspray, William (19 January 2021), Oral history interview with Martin Campbell-Kelly, Charles Babbage Institute, hdl:11299/225078 ; see pp. 14–15
  4. ↑ Croarken, Mary, German National Library, retrieved 2023-01-17
  5. ↑ Reviews of Early Scientific Computing in Britain:
  6. ↑ Reviews of The History of Mathematical Tables:
  7. ↑ Reviews of Mathematics at the Meridian:
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