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David Fowler (mathematician)

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Known for
  
Name
  
David Fowler


Residence
  
United Kingdom

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Born
  
April 28, 1937Blackburn, England (
1937-04-28
)

Institutions
  
Manchester UniversityUniversity of Warwick

Died
  
April 13, 2004, Warwick, United Kingdom

Education
  
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

David Herbert Fowler (; 28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis). He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock.

Fowler was also the translator of René Thom's book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis from French (Stabilité strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.

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