Judith Grabiner

Judith Victor Grabiner ( born October 12, 1938 in Los Angeles ) is an American mathematics historian.

Grabiner studied at the University of Chicago (Bachelor 's degree in Mathematics 1960) and Harvard University, where she in 1962 a master's degree made ​​in the history of science and in 1966 received his doctorate in the History of Science on Lagrange with I. Bernard Cohen ( and Dirk Struik ) ( The calculus as algebra. J.-L. Lagrange, 1736-1813 ). Then she was there 1966-1969 Instructor in History of Science. From 1969 she was a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara, 1970 at the California State University at Los Angeles, 1972 Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Dominguez Hills (from 1975 Associate Professor and in 1979 Professor ), and from 1985 at Pitzer College in Claremont ( California). She is there Flora Sanborn Pitzer Professor of Mathematics.

It addressed, among others, with a history of calculus in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, including Augustin Louis Cauchy and Lagrange. Three times won the Allendoerfer Award from the Mathematical Association of America and four times the Lester Randolph Ford Award.

She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

She is married to the mathematician Sandy Grabiner since 1964. The couple has a son and a daughter.

Writings

• A historian looks back. The calculus as algebra and selected writings. MAA 2010
• The origins of Cauchy 's rigorous calculus. MIT Press 1981, Dover 2005
• The calculus as algebra. J.-L. Lagrange, from 1736 to 1813. Garland Publishing, 1990 ( her thesis )