June Barrow-Green

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]

June Barrow-Green, Oberwolfach 2011.

Education

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.

Career

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]

Selected publications
  • 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[9]

References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, accessed 2020-01-08
  2. "Professor of History of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics, School of Mathematics & Statistics". The Open University. Retrieved 2020-01-11.
  3. Science, London School of Economics and Political. "June Barrow-Green". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  4. "History of the BSHM". Retrieved 2020-02-15.
  5. "Council Members". LMS. 2 December 2015. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  6. "The Chandler Davis Prize for Expository Excellence". springer.com. Retrieved 2020-02-11.
  7. August 2; 2018; Pm, 9:15. "More female role models needed in mathematics | ICM News". Retrieved 2020-02-11.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. "Members". International Commission on the History of Mathematics. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  9. Reviews of Poincaré and the three body problem:
    • Duda, R., zbMATH, Zbl 0877.01022CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Chambers, Ll. G. (1997), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1415387CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Vickers, James (January 1999), Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society, 31 (1): 121–123, doi:10.1112/s0024609397313952CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Diacu, Florin (May 1999), Historia Mathematica, 26 (2): 175–178, doi:10.1006/hmat.1999.2236CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Mawhin, Jean (June 1998), Isis, 89 (2): 345–346, doi:10.1086/384034, JSTOR 237789CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Lewis, Albert C. (July 1999), The Mathematical Gazette, 83 (497): 343, doi:10.2307/3619091, JSTOR 3619091CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Gottlieb, Daniel Henry (December 1999), The American Mathematical Monthly, 106 (10): 977–980, doi:10.2307/2589771, JSTOR 2589771CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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