Amy Dahan

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Dahan in 2016

Amy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change.

Education and career[edit]

Dahan earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1979 and taught mathematics at the University of Amiens until 1983, when she became a researcher for the CNRS. She has also taught at the École Polytechnique, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and Université libre de Bruxelles. She earned a second doctorate in the history of mathematics in 1990, and is an emeritus member of the Alexandre Koyré Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology.[1]

Books[edit]

Dahan is the author of:

  • Une histoire des mathématiques: routes et dédales (with Jeanne Peiffer, Études Vivantes, 1982). Translated into English by Sanford Segal as History of Mathematics: Highways and Byways (American Mathematical Society, 2010). Also translated into German as Wege und Irrwege — Eine Geschichte der Mathematik (Birkhäuser, 1994) and into Russian as Пути и лабиринты: Очерки по истории математики (Mir, 1986).[2]
  • Mathématiques au fil des âges (with J. Dhombres, R. Bkouche, C. Houzel, and M. Guillemot, Bordas, 1987)[3]
  • Mathématisations: Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'École Française (Éditions du Choix, 1992)[4]
  • Jacques-Louis Lions, un mathématicien d'exception: entre recherche, industrie et politique (Éditions La Découverte, 2005)
  • Les modèles du futur: changement climatique et scénarios économiques, enjeux scientifiques et politiques (Éditions La Découverte, 2007)[5]
  • Gouverner le climat ? 20 ans de négociations internationales (with Stefan C. Aykut, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015)[6]

She is the editor of:

  • La Formation polytechnicienne, 1794–1994 (with Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon, Dunod, 1994)[7]
  • La France des X. Deux siècles d'histoire (with Bruno Belhoste, Dominique Pestre, and Antoine Picon, Economica, 1995)[8]
  • Changing Images in Mathematics: From the French Revolution to the New Millennium (with Umberto Bottazini, Routledge, 2001).[9]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Amy Dahan Dalmedico, Centre Alexander-Koyré, retrieved 2019-01-20
  2. ^ Reviews of ''Une histoire des mathématiques and its translations:
  3. ^ Review of Mathématiques au fil des âges:
    • Spalt, Detlef D. (May 1988), Educational Studies in Mathematics, 19 (2): 281–286, JSTOR 3482581{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  4. ^ Reviews of Mathématisations:
  5. ^ Review of Les modèles du futur:
  6. ^ Review of Gouverner le climat:
    • Baillat, Alice (June 2015), Revue française de science politique, 65 (3): 504–506, JSTOR 24769608{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^ Review of La Formation polytechnicienne:
    • Licoppe, Christian (July–September 1997), Revue d'histoire des sciences, 50 (3): 378, JSTOR 23633366{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  8. ^ Review of La France des X:
    • Grelon, André (January 1998), Histoire de l'Éducation, 77 (77): 94–99, JSTOR 41159765{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  9. ^ Review of Changing Images in Mathematics:
    • Nastasi, Pietro (July–December 2004), Revue d'histoire des sciences, 57 (2): 449–451, JSTOR 23634069{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
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