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Department of Classics, Stanford University Education Cambridge (Christ’s College) PhD, Classics
1993-1995 PhD Dissertation Title: "On the
Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics", M.A. Thesis Title: "Bertrand Russell’s
Theory of the Construction of Points out of Events". Fellowships and Awards
Professional experience Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, Visiting Member 3-6/2002 Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, Visiting Member 6-7/2000 Department of Classics, Assistant Professor, Stanford University, 1999- Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, M.I.T, Post-Doctoral Fellow 1998-1999 Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, Research Fellow 1996-1999 Faculty of Classics, Cambridge University, Affiliated Lecturer 1997-1999 Tel Aviv University Visiting Lecturer 12/1996-1997 Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris, Visiting Member 3-4/1996 Cambridge University Invited Lecturer 1995-1997 Cambridge University British Council Scholar 1992-1993 Tel Aviv University Teaching Assistant 1991-1992 Presentations (since July 1998) July 2002 Archimedes: the Madness of the Method. Delphi European Centre, The Fifth International Conference for the History of Greek Mathematics. June 2002 Archimedes: the Madness of the Method. University of Lille. May 2002 Diophantus: Proofs and Symbols. Workshop on the History of Proof, Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall, Paris. April 2002 Heiberg’s Edition of Archimedes: Proof Transformed. Workshop on the History of Proof, Columbia University Institute for Scholars, Reid Hall, Paris. March 2002 From Problems to Equations: How did Mathematics Made the Conceptual Leap? Central European University, Budapest. Jan. 2002 The Science of Archimedes, University College London (filmed for the BBC). Dec. 2001 Apollonius Revived, Tel-Aviv University. Nov. 2001 Towards an Aesthetics of Mathematics, "Mathematics as Rational Activity", Roskilde University. Oct. 2001 Ancient Mathematics and its Manuscripts, Bibliotheca Classica, St. Petersburg May 2001 Visual Science, "Visual Literacies", Humanities Center Colloquium, Classics Department, Stanford. May 2001 The Physics of Archimedes, San Jose State University, Physics Department Colloquium. March 2001 Towards an Aesthetics of Mathematics, University of Indiana Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of Science. Feb. 2001 Towards a History of Greek Numeracy, UCLA Colloquium in the History of Science. Dec. 2000 Archimedes Resurfaces, New York Academy of Sciences. Nov. 2000 In Search of Archimedes. Stanford Linear Accelerator. Aug. 2000 The Baltimore Bulletin: News from the Archimedes Palimpsest. Delphi European Centre, The Fifth International Conference for the History of Greek Mathematics. June 2000 What is a Commentary? Two Types of Intertextuality. CNRS, Paris. June 2000 Ancient Scientific Naming (Absence of). Institute Henri Poincare, Paris. April 2000 On the Readings of Archimedes, St. John’s College, Annapolis. Jan. 2000 A Metaphorical Unveiling of the Archimedes Palimpsest: in Memory of Wilbur Knorr. Special session of the Annual American Mathematical Society Meeting, Washington DC. Jan. 2000 A Reading of Aristotle’s Topics I.12-14. The West Coast Aristotelian Society, Berkeley. Sept. 1999 Greek Mathematics: News from the Front Line. Chiba University. Sept. 1999 Greek Mathematics: News from the Front line. Kyoto International University. Apr. 1999 Introducing "The shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics". Harvard, The Early Sciences Seminar. Jan. 1999 Archimedes: Diagrams and Manuscripts. Stanford, Classics Department. Nov. 1998 Towards a history of Mathematical Pedantry. California State University, LA, Department of Philosophy. Nov. 1998 The Aristotelian Paragraph. Stanford University, Department of Philosophy Colloquium. Oct. 1998 Archimedes: Diagrams and Manuscripts. M.I.T., The Dibner Institute Colloquium.. July 1998 Greek and Babylonian Mathematical Formulaic Language: a Comparative Approach (joint presentation with Dr. E. Robson, Oxford). Les Treilles, France, the Fourth International Conference for the History of Greek Mathematics. July 1998 Why Did Greek Mathematicians Publish their Analyses? Les Treilles, France, the Fourth International Conference for the History of Greek Mathematics. Publications since 1997 (excluding reviews and brief notices) Volumes Books: The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History. Cambridge University Press 1999. Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, with a Critical Edition of the Diagrams and a Translation of Eutocius’ commentaries, Vol. I: The Sphere and the Cylinder. Cambridge University Press [in press]. From Problems to Equations. A Study in the Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics. Cambridge University Press [in press]. Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, with a Critical Edition of the Diagrams and a Translation of Eutocius’ commentaries, Vol. II: Advanced Geometrical Works. Cambridge University Press [in contract]. Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, with a Critical Edition of the Diagrams and a Translation of Eutocius’ commentaries, Vol. III: The Mathematical-Physical Works. Cambridge University Press [in contract]. Co-authored or co-edited books: The Archimedes Palimpsest: Facsimile, Edition and Commentary (with N. Wilson et al.) [in preparation]. A Time-Capsule from Archimedes (with W. Noel). Widenfeld and Nicholson [in contract]. Proof in History (with K. Chemla et al.) Columbia University Press [in preparation]. A Century of Greek Mathematics: Classics in Twentieth Century Historiography. (Co-edited with Jean Christianidis et al.) Kluwer [forthcoming]. Vladimir Nabokov: Odin Yazi’k ili Dva? (Co-authored with Elizaveta Kurganova), pamphlet printed by MPGU, Moscow [forthcoming]. Edited Journal Volumes: New Directions in the History of Greek Mathematics: Studies in Honour of Sabetai Unguru (Science in Context, forthcoming). Compare! Studies in Honour of G.E.R. Lloyd (Science in Context, forthcoming, co-edited with Serafina Cuomo). Books in Preparation: Systems and Symbols: Mathematics of the Mediterranean Codex. An Essay on Cognitive History. Poetry: Quatrains (A volume of Hebrew Poetry, completed manuscript). Otium (A volume of Hebrew poetry, provisional acceptance: Shufra). 1999 Adayin bahuc, Shufra 1999. (A volume of Hebrew poetry, Awarded President’s Prize). Articles Articles, forthcoming or submitted for publication: The Goal of Archimedes’ Sand-Reckoner, submitted to Apeiron. Plato’s Mathematical Construction, submitted to Classical Quarterly. The Limits of Text in Greek Mathematics. In History of Science, History of Text, ed. K. Chemla, Dordrecht: Reidel [in press]. Archimedes: an Approximation. Science. [forthcoming] Nabokov’s Language – or Nabokov’s Languages? A Comparative Study of ‘Cloud, Castle, Lake’ (with E. Kurganova) Procedings of MPGU Symposium on 20th Century Russian Literature (in Russian) [forthcoming]. The Aesthetics of Mathematics: a study. Proceedings of the conference Mathematics as Rational Acitivity, Roskilde University [forthcoming]. The Pythagoreans, In Mathematics and Views of the Divine, a Historical Study, eds. L. Bergmans and T. Koetsier. [forthcoming]. The Trouble with Archimedes’ Method. Matapli. [forthcoming]. Philology and Demonstration: Heiberg Editing Euclid and Archimedes (with B. Vitrac) in Proof in History, Columbia University Press (eds. K. Chemla et al) [forthcoming]. Reasoning and Symbolism in Diophantus, in Proof in History, Columbia University Press (eds. K. Chemla et al) [forthcoming]. Published Articles: 2002 Greek Mathematicians: a Group Picture. In Science and Mathematics in Greek Culture, ed. T. Rihll and C. Tuplin, Oxford University Press. Counter Culture: towards a History of Greek Numeracy. History of Science. Collections of Confinements: Thoughts on Barbed Wire, Connect: Art-Politics-Theory Practice. A New Reading of Archimedes’ Use of Indivisibles: Preliminary Evidence from the Archimedes Palimpsest, part 2 (with K. Saito, N. Tchernetska). Sciamus. Archimedes and Mar Saba: a Preliminary Notice. The Sabaite Heritage: The Sabaite Factor in the Orthodox Church: Monastic life, Liturgy, Theology, Literature, Art and Archaeology, ed. J. Patrich. 2001 A New Reading of Archimedes’ Use of Indivisibles: Preliminary Evidence from the Archimedes Palimpses, part 1 (with K. Saito, N. Tchernetska). Sciamus. The Aristotelian Paragraph. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society. How does a Geometrical Problem become a Cubic Equation? Farhang. Why did Greek Mathematicians Publish their Analyses? Memorial Volume for Wilbur Knorr, eds. H. Mandel, J. Moravcsik and P. Suppes, Stanford Centre for the Study of Language and Information. Linguistic Formulae as Cognitive Tools (tr. Into Japanese). Gendai Shiso (Revue de la Pensée d’aujourd’hui). La Construction d’un Ideal. Les Cahiers des Sciences & Vie. The origin of mathematical Physics: New Light on an Old Question. Physics Today. Barbed Wire. London Review of Books (reprinted and translated since many times since, e.g. at Independent on Sunday, Harper’s Magazine, Intellektual’ni’y Forum). The sections on Greek Geometry (125 pages) in the Enciclopedia Italiana della Storia della scienza. 1999 Linguistic Formulae as Cognitive Tools. Pragmatics and Cognition. Deuteronomic Texts: Late Antiquity and the History of Mathematics. Revue d’Histoire des Mathématiques. Introducing "The shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics". La Lettre de la Preuve. 1998 Greek Diagrams: their Use and Their Meaning. For the Learning of Mathematics. Archimedes Transformed: the Case of A Result Stating a Maximum for a Cubic Equation. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. Proclus’ Division of the Mathematical Proposition into Parts: how and why was it Formulated? Classical Quarterly. The First Jewish Scientist? Scripta Classica Israelica. 1997 Classical Mathematics in the Classical Mediterranean. Mediterranean Historical Review.
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