Helena Mary Pycior
Birth date1947
Alma materCornell University
Occupationhistorian

Helena Mary Pycior (born 1947)[1] is an American historian known for her works in the history of mathematics, Marie Curie, and human-animal relations. She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[2]

Education

Pycior has a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in history, both from Cornell University.[2] Her 1976 doctoral dissertation was titled The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra.[3]

Books

Pycior is the author of the book Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Cambridge University Press, 1997),[4] and the coeditor of Creative Couples in the Sciences (with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am, Rutgers University Press, 1996).[5]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-09-04
  2. ^ "Pycior, Helena: Professor Emerita", History people, University of Wisconsin–Madison, retrieved 2020-09-04
  3. ^ WorldCat catalog entry for The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra, retrieved 2020-09-04
  4. ^ Reviews of Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: *Harkleroad, L., "none", zbMATH, Zbl 0876.01002 *Rouvray, Dennis H. (January 1998), "none", Endeavour. 22 (1): 39, doi:10.1016/s0160-9327(97)86420-4 *Seltman, Muriel (October 1998), "none", Annals of Science. 55 (4): 438–440, doi:10.1080/00033799800200271 *Richards, Joan L. (December 1998), "none", Isis. 89 (4): 728–729, doi:10.1086/384188. JSTOR 236766 *Galuzzi, Massimo (1999), "none", Mathematical Reviews, MR 1470715 *Henry, John (April 1999), "none", The English Historical Review. 114 (456): 450–451, doi:10.1093/ehr/114.456.450. JSTOR 580149 *Guicciardini, Niccolò (March 1999), "Bifocal mathematics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A. 30 (1): 183–189, doi:10.1016/s0039-3681(98)00025-9 *Feingold, Mordechai (December 1999), "none", The American Historical Review. 104 (5): 1752–1753, doi:10.2307/2649492. JSTOR 2649492 *Schubring, Gert (August 2005), "none", Historia Mathematica. 32 (3): 363–366, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.001
  5. ^ Reviews of Creative Couples in the Sciences: *Sime, Ruth Lewin (July 19, 1996), "none", Science. 273 (5273): 316, New Series, doi:10.1126/science.273.5273.316. JSTOR 2889732 *Cain, Joe (Summer 1997), "none", Journal of the History of Biology. 30 (2): 311–313, JSTOR 4331441 *Genovese, Rosalie G. (September 1997), "none", Isis. 88 (3): 521–522, JSTOR 236163 *Rossiter, Margaret W. (February 1998), "none", The American Historical Review. 103 (1): 144–146, doi:10.2307/2650790. JSTOR 2650790. S2CID 144786519