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Year of election: | 2001 |
Section: | History of Science and Medicine |
City: | New York, NY |
Country: | USA |
Research Priorities: History of Chinese science, history of mathematics, Georg Cantor, Charles S. Peirce and Abraham Robinson, history of Soviet and Russian science
Joseph W. Dauben is a US-American historian of science and mathematics. Key areas of his research are the mathematicians Georg Cantor, Charles S. Peirce and Abraham Robinson, as well as the history of Chinese science.
Dauben wrote the first biography of the American mathematician Abraham Robinson, one of the 20th century’s most important mathematicians. Joseph W. Dauben’s book links Robinson’s life – as a Jew, Robinson had to flee Europe – to his achievements in pure and applied mathematics. In his work on the German mathematician Georg Cantor, Joseph W. Dauben also showed the influence that life experiences and illness can have on the research of individual academics. His work has also examined the intellectual and social development of mathematics.
Furthermore, Dauben is a renowned expert in the history of Chinese science and has held various teaching and research positions in China and Taiwan. Many of his works have been translated into Chinese.