Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of

history of science The history of science covers the development of science from ancient times to the present. It encompasses all three major branches of science: natural, social, and formal. Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

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. His research interests are mostly in the history of mathematics and

optics Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultrav ...

in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Malet earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

as a student of Charles Gillispie, with the thesis ''Studies on James Gregorie (1638–1675)''.

Selected publications

*"From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals. Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities". Barcelona 1996. *"Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967)". Barcelona 1995. * with J. Paradís: "Els orígens i l’ensenyament de l’àlgebra simbòlica" (in Catalan). Barcelona 1984. *"James Gregorie on Tangents and the “Taylor” Rule of Series Expansions". ''

Archive for History of Exact Sciences ''Archive for History of Exact Sciences'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal currently published bimonthly by Springer Science+Business Media, covering the history of mathematics and of astronomy observations and techniques, epistemology of scienc ...

'', Volume 46, 1993, 97–137. *"Mil años de matematicas en Iberia". In: A. Duran (Herausgeber): ''El legado de las matematicas''. Universität Sevilla 2000, S. 193–224. *"Kepler and the Telescope". '' Annals of Science'', 60, 2003, 107–36. *"Isaac Barrow on the Mathematization of Nature: Theological Voluntarism and the Rise of Geometrical Optics". ''

Journal of the History of Ideas The ''Journal of the History of Ideas'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering intellectual history and the history of ideas, including the histories of philosophy, literature and the arts, natural and social sciences, religion, an ...

'', 58, 1997, 265–287. *"Gregorie, Descartes, Kepler, and the Law of Refraction". ''Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences'', 40, 1990, 278–304.

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