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Spanish historian of mathematics (born 1950)

Antoni Malet
Malet in 2009
Born (1950-02-23) 23 February 1950 (age 74)
NationalitySpanish
Alma materPrinceton University
Scientific career
FieldsHistory of science
InstitutionsPompeu Fabra University
Doctoral advisorCharles Gillispie

Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of history of science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research interests are mostly in the history of mathematics and optics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Malet earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from Princeton University as a student of Charles Gillispie, with the thesis Studies on James Gregorie (1638–1675).

Malet served as president of the European Society for the History of Science 2016–2018.

Selected publications

  • "From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals. Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities". Barcelona 1996.
  • "Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967)". Barcelona 1995.
  • with J. Paradís: "Els orígens i l'ensenyament de l'àlgebra simbòlica" (in Catalan). Barcelona 1984.
  • "James Gregorie on Tangents and the "Taylor" Rule of Series Expansions". Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 46, 1993, 97–137.
  • "Mil años de matematicas en Iberia". In: A. Duran (Herausgeber): El legado de las matematicas. Universität Sevilla 2000, S. 193–224.
  • "Kepler and the Telescope". Annals of Science, 60, 2003, 107–36.
  • "Isaac Barrow on the Mathematization of Nature: Theological Voluntarism and the Rise of Geometrical Optics". Journal of the History of Ideas, 58, 1997, 265–287.
  • "Gregorie, Descartes, Kepler, and the Law of Refraction". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 40, 1990, 278–304.

References

  1. "Antoni Malet : CV" (PDF). Mathunion.org. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  2. Paula Olmos. "Greek Science in the Long Run: Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE)" (PDF). Iris.unipa.it. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  3. "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Antoni Malet". Genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu. Retrieved 10 April 2015.
  4. "Scientific Board". European Society for the History of Science. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

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Professional and academic associations
Preceded byKarine Chemla President of the European Society for the History of Science
2016–2018 		Succeeded byAna Simões
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