Mary G. Croarken is a British independent scholar and author in the

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

and the

history of computing The history of computing is longer than the history of computing hardware and modern computing technology and includes the history of methods intended for pen and paper or for chalk and slate, with or without the aid of tables. Concrete devices ...

Education and career

Croarken earned a degree in computer science from the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

in 1982 and a doctorate in the history of science there in 1986, supervised by

Martin Campbell-Kelly Martin Campbell-Kelly FCBS FLSW (born 1960) is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick who has specialised in the history of computing. Education Campell-Kelly was educated at Sunderland Polytechnic where he was awarded a PhD in ...

, who describes her as one of his two most successful students. After leaving academia to raise a family in

Norwich Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich ...

, she became a health research manager in the

National Health Service The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...

, while continuing to work in the history of science as an independent scholar. She has been a research fellow at the

National Maritime Museum The National Maritime Museum (NMM) is a maritime museum in Greenwich, London. It is part of Royal Museums Greenwich, a network of museums in the Maritime Greenwich World Heritage Site. Like other publicly funded national museums in the Unit ...

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and in the

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, information, and automation. Computer science spans Theoretical computer science, theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, and information theory) to Applied science, ...

department at the

Books

Croarken is the author of the book ''Early Scientific Computing in Britain'' (Clarendon Press, 1990). She is a co-editor of '' The History of Mathematical Tables: from Sumer to Spreadsheets'' (Oxford University Press, 2003) and of ''Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich'' (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2020)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Croarken, Mary Year of birth missing (living people) Living people British historians of mathematics British women historians Alumni of the University of Warwick