June Barrow-Green (born 1953)[1] is a professor of History of Mathematics at the Open University[2] and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics.[3]
Education edit
Barrow-Green obtained a BSc Hons in Mathematics in 1986 and an MSc in Mathematical Physics in 1989, both from King's College London. In 1993 she gained a PhD in mathematics from the Open University, under supervision of Jeremy Gray, on Poincaré and the Three Body Problem.[citation needed]
Career edit
From 1993 to the present Barrow-Green has worked at the Open University, receiving a professorship in 2015.
From 2003 to 2005 she was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.[4] From 2007 to 2018 she was an elected member of the Council of the London Mathematical Society and during that period she served as the Librarian for the society.[5]
In 2014 Barrow-Green was awarded the first Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence for her article An American Goes to Europe: Three Letters from Oswald Veblen to George Birkhoff in 1913/1914 in The Mathematical Intelligencer.[6]
In 2018 she took part in a discussion panel on The Gender Gap in Mathematical and Natural Sciences from a Historical Perspective at the International Congress of Mathematicians 2018, Rio de Janeiro, which was chaired by the English mathematician Caroline Series and also featured the French mathematician Marie-Françoise Roy and the Argentine physicist Silvina Ponce Dawson.[7]
She chairs the executive committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.[8]
In August 2021 The Royal Society awarded her its Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar medal "for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics".[9]
Selected publications edit
- Barrow-Green, June; Gray, Jeremy; Wilson, Robin (2019), The History of Mathematics: A Source-Based Approach: Volume 1, American Mathematical Society & Mathematical Association of America
- Gowers, Timothy; Barrow-Green, June; Leader, Imre, eds. (2008), The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, Princeton University Press
- Barrow-Green, June (2002), Poincaré and the discovery of chaos, Icon, ISBN 9781840462883
- Barrow-Green, June (1997), Poincaré and the three body problem, History of mathematics, v. 11., American Mathematical Society, ISBN 9780821803677[10]
References edit
- ^ "Library of Congress catalog entry". Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ "Professor of History of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, School of Mathematics & Statistics". The Open University. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
- ^ "June Barrow-Green". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "History of the BSHM". Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ "Council Members". LMS. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ "The Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence". springer.com. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "More female role models needed in mathematics". ICM News. Archived from the original on 11 December 2019. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
- ^ "Members". International Commission on the History of Mathematics. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
- ^ @royalsociety (24 August 2021). "Professor June Barrow-Green has been awarded the Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Medal and Lecture for her research in 19th & 20th century mathematics, with emphasis on the underrepresentation of women in historical narratives & contemporary mathematics. #RSMedals" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ Reviews of Poincaré and the three body problem:
- Duda, R., zbMATH, Zbl 0877.01022
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Chambers, Ll. G. (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1415387
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Vickers, James (January 1999), Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 31 (1): 121–123, doi:10.1112/s0024609397313952
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Diacu, Florin (May 1999), Historia Mathematica, 26 (2): 175–178, doi:10.1006/hmat.1999.2236
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Mawhin, Jean (June 1998), Isis, 89 (2): 345–346, doi:10.1086/384034, JSTOR 237789
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Lewis, Albert C. (July 1999), The Mathematical Gazette, 83 (497): 343, doi:10.2307/3619091, JSTOR 3619091
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Gottlieb, Daniel Henry (December 1999), The American Mathematical Monthly, 106 (10): 977–980, doi:10.2307/2589771, JSTOR 2589771
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- Duda, R., zbMATH, Zbl 0877.01022
External links edit
- BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, Euclid's Elements, April 2016. June Barrow-Green on the expert panel with Marcus du Sautoy and Serafina Cuomo.