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Christoph J. Scriba (6 October 1929 – 26 July 2013) was a German historian of mathematics.[1]

Life and work

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Scriba was born in Darmstadt and studied at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. He read James Gregory's early writings on the calculus with Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann, and was awarded his doctorate in 1957. Continuing with J.E. Hofmann, and with Bernard Sticker, he investigated the papers of John WallisinOxford in 1966, contributing to Studies on the Mathematics of John Wallis.

Scriba then taught at the University of Kentucky, the University of Massachusetts and at the University of Toronto from 1959 to 1962. He became chairman of Technische Universität Berlin's department of History of Mathematics in 1969. Then in 1975 he became Professor of History of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg and Director of the Institute until he retired in 1995. His successor there was Karin Reich.

Scriba was on the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics and its president from 1977 to 1985. He was a member of Jungius company in Hamburg, the Leopoldina, the International Academy of the History of Science, and since 1995 the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize[2][3] of the ICHM. He was the doctorate advisor of Eberhard Knobloch. He died in July 2013 in Hamburg.

Writings

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Literature

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References

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  1. ^ "Christoph J. Scriba (1929-2013)". Illc.uva.nl. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  • ^ Dauben, Joseph W. (1999). "Historia Mathematica: 25 Years/Context and Content". Historia Mathematica. 26 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1006/hmat.1999.2227.
  • ^ "Kenneth O. May Prize in the History of Mathematics". International Mathematical Union (IMU). 15 November 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
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