Judith Victor Grabiner (born October 12, 1938) is an American
mathematician
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Claremont Colleges
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. Her main interest is in mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Education
Grabiner completed a
Bachelor of Science
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degree at the
University of Chicago
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in 1960. She was a graduate student in the
history of science
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at
Harvard University
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, completing a
Master of Arts
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in 1962 and a Ph.D. in 1966, under I. Bernard Cohen. Her PhD dissertation was on Italian mathematician
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Joseph-Louis Lagrange (born Giuseppe Luigi LagrangiaCalifornia State University, Dominguez Hills from 1972 to 1985.
Grabiner joined the mathematics department at Pitzer College in 1985, and has been the Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics since 1994. Her teaching includes courses on the
history of mathematics
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American Mathematical Monthly
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''.
In 2003, Grabiner received one of the
Mathematical Association of America
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American Mathematical Society
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American Mathematical Society
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"for her outstanding contributions to the history of mathematics, in particular her works on Cauchy, Lagrange, and MacLaurin; her widely-recognized gift for expository writing; and a distinguished career of teaching, lecturing, and numerous publications promoting a better understanding of mathematics and the significant roles it plays in culture generally".