Status:
Departmental Lecturer in Mathematics and its History
Clifford Norton Senior Research Fellow in the History of Mathematics & College Lecturer at The Queen's College
Personal website:
ORCID iD:
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3181-1968
Research groups:
Address
University of Oxford
Andrew Wiles Building
Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Woodstock Road
Oxford
OX2 6GG
Highlighted Books:
Meeting under the Integral Sign?: The Oslo Congress of Mathematicians on the Eve of the Second World War
ISBN-13: 9781470443535
(8 April 2020)
Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist
ISBN-13: 9781851244881
(2018)
Wagner's theory of generalised heaps
ISBN-13: 9783319636207
(9 September 2017)
Scientific Communication Across the Iron Curtain
ISBN-13: 9783319253442
(2016)
Mathematics across the Iron Curtain A History of the Algebraic Theory of Semigroups
ISBN-13: 9781470414931
(16 July 2014)
Highlighted Publications:
‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
issue 5
volume 71
page 409–481-
(20 July 2017)
The early mathematical education of Ada Lovelace
BSHM Bulletin
issue 3
volume 32
page 221-234
(1 June 2017)
The Lovelace--De Morgan mathematical correspondence: A critical re-appraisal
Historia Mathematica
issue 3
volume 44
page 202-231
(9 May 2017)
The acceptance of abstract algebra in the USSR, as viewed through periodic surveys of the progress of Soviet mathematical science
Historia Mathematica
issue 2
volume 42
page 193-222
(May 2015)
A tale of mathematical myth-making: E. T. Bell and the ‘arithmetization of algebra’
BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics
issue 1
volume 31
page 69-80
(1 January 2015)
Research interests:
History of mathematics: the development of abstract algebra during the 19th and 20th centuries; Soviet mathematics; communications between mathematicians in East and West during the Cold War; historiography of ancient mathematics
Teaching:
O1. History of Mathematics (Part B)
Prelims and Part A Analysis in Queen's