Joseph Warren Dauben (born 29 December 1944,

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) is a Herbert H. Lehman Distinguished Professor of History at the

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of the

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. He obtained his PhD from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of highe ...

. His fields of expertise are the

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 ...

, the

history of mathematics The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...

, the

scientific revolution The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transforme ...

, the

sociology of science The sociology of scientific knowledge (SSK) is the study of science as a social activity, especially dealing with "the social conditions and effects of science, and with the social structures and processes of scientific activity." The sociolog ...

intellectual history Intellectual history (also the history of ideas) is the study of the history of human thought and of intellectuals, people who conceptualize, discuss, write about, and concern themselves with ideas. The investigative premise of intellectual hist ...

, the 17th and 18th centuries, the history of Chinese science, and the

history of botany The history of botany examines the human effort to understand life on Earth by tracing the historical development of the discipline of botany—that part of natural science dealing with organisms traditionally treated as plants. Rudimentary b ...

Positions

Dauben is a 1980

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. He is a fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

, and a fellow of the

New York Academy of Sciences The New York Academy of Sciences (originally the Lyceum of Natural History) was founded in January 1817 as the Lyceum of Natural History. It is the fourth oldest scientific society in the United States. An independent, nonprofit organization wi ...

(since 1982).Faculty profile
, Institute for the History of Natural Sciences,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republi ...

. Accessed 27 May 2011 Dauben is an elected member (1991) of the

International Academy of the History of Science The International Academy of the History of Science (french: Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences) is a membership organization for historians of science. The academy was founded on 17 August 1928 at the Congress of Historical Science b ...

and an elected foreign member (2001) of

German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (german: Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften), short Leopoldina, is the national academy of Germany, and is located in Halle (Saale). Founde ...

. In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the

International Commission on the History of Mathematics The International Commission on the History of Mathematics was established in 1971 to promote the study of history of mathematics. Kenneth O. May provided its initial impetus. In 1974, its official journal Historia Mathematica began publishing. E ...

. Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998

International Congress of Mathematicians The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rena ...

in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work. The creator of

non-standard analysis The history of calculus is fraught with philosophical debates about the meaning and logical validity of fluxions or infinitesimal numbers. The standard way to resolve these debates is to define the operations of calculus using epsilon–delta ...

Abraham Robinson Abraham Robinson (born Robinsohn; October 6, 1918 – April 11, 1974) was a mathematician who is most widely known for development of nonstandard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorp ...

was the subject of Dauben's 1995 book ''Abraham Robinson''. It was reviewed positively by

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, but the review noted that it avoids discussing any of Robinson's negative aspects, and "in this respect he bookborders on the hagiographic, painting a portrait without warts." In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the

.New Faculty
''365 Fifth'', April 2004, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Accessed 27 May 2011

Publications

* 1979: ''Georg Cantor, His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite'',

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, reprinted 1989 by

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* 1995: ''Abraham Robinson, The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey'',

Articles, reviews, and essays

* 1985: "Abraham Robinson and Nonstandard Analysis: History, Philosophy, and Foundations of Mathematics", in William Aspray and Philip Kitcher, eds. ''History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics'', pages 177–200, Minnesota Studies in Philososphy of Science XI,

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, 1988. Onlin
here
* 1991: "La Matematica," in W. Shea editor, ''Storia delle Scienze. LeScienze Fisiche e Astronomiche'' (Milano: Banca Popolare di Milano, and Einaudi, 1992) pp. 258–280 * 1992: "Are There Revolutions in Mathematics?" in ''The Space of Mathematics'' (editors J. Echieverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann) (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 203–226. * 1992: "Conceptual Revolutions and the History of Mathematics: Two Studies in the Growth of Knowledge", Chapter 4 of D. Gillies, editor, ''Revolutions in Mathematics'',

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pp. 49–71. * 1992: "Revolutions Revisited", Chapter 5 of D. Gillies, editor, '' Revolutions in Mathematics'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 72–82. * 2008: "Suan shu shu. A book on numbers and computations", translated from the Chinese and with commentary by Joseph W. Dauben.

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62(2): 91–178.

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