Joseph Dauben
American historian of science
Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944, Santa Monica) is a Distinguished Professor of History at Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1972. His PhD thesis The early development of Cantorian Set Theory was supervised by Dirk Struik.
Dauben's fields of expertise are the history of science, the history of mathematics, the Scientific Revolution, the sociology of science, intellectual history, the 17th and 18th centuries, the history of Chinese science, and the history of botany.
Positions
Dauben is a 1980 Guggenheim fellow.
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (since 1982).
Dauben is an elected member (1991) of the International Academy of the History of Science and an elected foreign member (2001) of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.
Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work.
The creator of non-standard analysis, Abraham Robinson was the subject of Dauben's 1995 book Abraham Robinson.
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