Christoph Scriba

Christoph J. Scriba (born October 6, 1929 in Darmstadt) is a German historian of mathematics.

Life and work

Scriba earned his doctorate in 1957 at the Justus-Liebig-University Giessen about James Gregory 's early writings on the calculus. His doctorate advisor was Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann.In a research trip to Oxford in 1966 he investigated the estate of John Wallis, when Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann and Bernhard Sticker has been habilitated ( studies on the mathematics of John Wallis ). He then taught at the University of Kentucky, the University of Massachusetts and at the University of Toronto from 1959 to 1962. From 1969 he was the owner of the newly established Chair of the History of Mathematics at the TU Berlin . From 1975 until his retirement in 1995 he was Professor of History of Natural Science and Mathematics at the University of Hamburg and Director of the Institute. His successor there was Karin Reich. Scriba was the Executive Committee of the ICHM (International Commission on the History of Mathematics) and its president from 1977 to 1985. He is a member of Jungius company in Hamburg, the Leopoldina, the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, and since 1995 the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. In 1993 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize of the ICHM. He was the doctorate advisor of Eberhard Knobloch.

Writings

• The Concept of Number – a chapter in the history of mathematics, with applications of interest to teachers, BI university paperback 1968
• Editor with Philip Beeley: The Correspondence of John Wallis, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press
• Published by Joseph Dauben: Writing the History of Mathematics—its historic development, Birkhauser, 2002.
• Peter Schreiber: geometry 5000 years – history, culture, people, Springer, 2004
• Studies on the mathematics of John Wallis (1616–1703): angular divisions, combining theory and number theory problems. In the appendix the books and manuscripts of Valais . Wiesbaden 1966 (habilitation)
• By Edward Seidler, Wieland Berg (Editor): The elite of the nation in the Third Reich – The ratio of scientific academies and their environment to Nazism, Leopoldina symposium, Hall 1995

Literature

Joseph W. Dauben et al. (eds): History of mathematics. State of the Art Flores quadrivii. Studies in Honor of Christoph J. Scriba . Academic Press, San Diego, CA et al. 1996, ISBN 0-12-204055-4 .

References

External links

• Homepage

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Name	Christoph Scriba
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Short description	Mathematician
Date of birth	October 6, 1929
Place of birth	Darmstadt, Germany
Date of death
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