Jan Hogendijk

Jan Pieter Hogendijk ( born July 21, 1955 in Leeuwarden ) is a Dutch historian of mathematics that deals mainly with Islamic Mathematics of the Middle Ages.

Life

Hogendijk in 1983 received his doctorate at the University of Utrecht. As a post-doc, he was until 1985 Visiting Assistant Professor at Brown University with David Pingree and 1985/86 Assistant at the Institute for the History of Science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Since 1986 he was at the University of Utrecht.

2004 to 2009 he was professor of mathematics history at Leiden University and in 2005 professor of mathematics history in Utrecht. He was also an adjunct professor at the King Fahd University in Dhahran and from 2008 to 2010 at the University of Tehran.

He also dealt with Desargues and its connection to Apollonius.

In 1994 he was invited speaker at the ICM in Zurich (Mathematics in medieval islamic Spain). Since 2010 he is member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences. 1996 to 1999 he was managing editor of the journal Historia Mathematica.

In 2012 he received the first Otto Neugebauer Prize in Mathematics History of the European Mathematical Society. In the eulogy was pointed out that he showed in his work, such as the ancient Greek mathematics was recorded in the medieval Arab world, where he developed and was eventually passed on to Europe.

Writings (selection )

• Ibn al Haytham 's completion of the Conics ( Sources in the history of mathematics and physical sciences; Vol. 7). Springer, Berlin, 1985, ISBN 3-540-96013-9 ( zugl. dissertation, University of Utrecht, 1983; translation).

• Studies in the History of the Exact Sciences in Honour of David Pingree (Islamic philosophy, theology and science, Vol 54). Brill, Leiden 2003, ISBN 90-04-13202-3 (along with Charles Burnett, Kim Plofker and Michio Yano ).