Karen Parshall
Karen Hunger Parshall (* 1955 in Virginia; born Karen hunger Virginia ) is an American mathematics historian.
Life
Parshall studied Romance languages (French) and mathematics at the University of Virginia, where in 1978 a master's degree in mathematics made . After that, she graduated in 1982 in History ( History of Mathematics ) at the University of Chicago in the historian Allen G. Debus ( 1926-2009 ) and the mathematician Israel Herstein. The topic of her thesis was the history of the algebras theory in particular with Joseph Wedderburn (The Contributions of JHM Wedderburn to the theory of algebras, 1900-1910 ). 1982 to 1987 she was an assistant professor at Sweet Briar College and 1987/ 88 at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign. Since 1988 she teaches history of science, mathematics, and especially the history of mathematics at the University of Virginia, where she is assistant professor in 1988, associate professor in 1993 and professor since 1999. She was a visiting scientist at the Australian National University in Canberra and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1985).
Parshall dealt primarily with the development of mathematics in the United States since the 19th century (in particular the Chicago school with, for example, Leonard Dickson, who was given a substantial boost by contacts with German mathematicians like Felix Klein at the time of the 1893 World's Fair ) and with the history of algebra. She gave out the correspondence of James Joseph Sylvester at Oxford University Press and wrote his biography.
1996/97 it was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1994 she was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Zurich (Mathematics in National Contexts ( 1875-1900 ): An International Overview). Since 2002 she has been a corresponding member of the Paris Académie International d' Histoire des Sciences. 1996 to 1999 she was editor of the journal Historia Mathematica. She was the governing body of the History of Science Society and from 1998 to 2001, the American Mathematical Society (AMS ), the fellow she is.
Writings
- Eliakim Hastings Moore and the Founding of a Mathematical Community in America, 1892-1902, Annals of Science 41, 1984, pp. 313-333; reprinted in Peter Duren (Editor): A Century of Mathematics in America. Part II, AMS History of Mathematics 2, Providence, 1989, pp. 155-175 ( AMS Books Online: Part of Chicago)
- Joseph HM Wedderburn and the Structure Theory of Algebras, Archive for History of Exact Sciences 32, 1985, p 223-349
- The Art of Algebra from al - Khwarizmi to Viète: a Study in the Natural Selection of Ideas, History of Science 26, 1988, pp. 129-164
- Toward a History of Nineteenth - Century Invariant Theory, in David E. Rowe, John McCleary (Editor): The History of Modern Mathematics, Volume 1, Academic Press, Boston, 1989, pp. 157-206
- With David E. Rowe: American Mathematics Comes of Age: 1875-1900, in Peter Duren (Editor): A Century of Mathematics in America. Part III, AMS History of Mathematics 3, 1989, pp. 3-28 ( AMS Books Online: The Nineteenth Century part, at Google Books)
- With David E. Rowe: The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876-1900: JJ Sylvester, Felix Klein, and EH Moore, AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 8, Providence / London 1994
- James Joseph Sylvester: Life and Work in Letters, Oxford University Press, 1998
- Adrian C. Rice (Eds. ): Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945, AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 23, 2002
- James Joseph Sylvester: Jewish Mathematician in a Victorian World, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006, ISBN 0-8018-8291-5
- Jeremy J. Gray (Editor): Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra ( 1800-1950 ), AMS / LMS History of Mathematics 32, Providence / London 2007 (conference at MSRI 2003)
- Perspectives on American Mathematics, Bulletin of the AMS, Volume 37, 2000, pp. 381-405