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Lenore Feigenbaum |
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Coordinator of Mathematics
Associate Professor of Mathematics
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Mathematics Department
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History of mathematics, history of the calculus, the mathematics of Brook Taylor, mathematics in antiquity, the physical sciences in the 17th and 18th centuries, women in mathematics and science, scientific education and institutions
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lfeigenb@tufts.edu
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http://www.tufts.edu/as/math/feigenbaum.html
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| Scholarship & Research: |
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Brook Taylor and the Method of Increments. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 34 (1985): pp. 1-140
The fragmentation of the European mathematical community The investigation of difficult things: Essays on Newton and the history of the exact sciences in honour of D. T. Whiteside, pp. 383-397, ed. by Harman and Shapiro, Cambridge University Press, 1992
Infinite series and solutions of ordinary differential equations, 1670-1770 Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Vol. I, pp. 504-519, ed. by Grattan-Guinness, Routledge Press, 1994
Brook Taylor, in New Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, in press
The Life and Letters of Brook Taylor. Book in preparation
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