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Nationality
  
Dutch

Name
  
Jan Hogendijk


Alma mater
  
Utrecht University

Fields
  
Jan Hogendijk wwwjphogendijknlfotoJPHjpg

Born
  
21 July 1955 (age 69) Leeuwarden, Friesland (
1955-07-21
)

Institutions
  
University of UtrechtLeiden UniversityUniversity of Heidelberg

Doctoral students
  
Silvia HarmsenBenno van DalenSteven Wepster

Notable awards
  
Otto Neugebauer Prize (2012)

Doctoral advisor
  
Institution
  
Utrecht University, Leiden University, Heidelberg University

Jan Pieter Hogendijk (born 21 July 1955) is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. Since he 2005 is professor of history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht.

Hogendijk became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.

Hogendijk has contributed to the study of Greek mathematics and mathematics in medieval Islam; he provides a list of Sources on his website (below). In 2012, he was awarded the inaugural Otto Neugebauer Prize for History of Mathematics, by the European Mathematical Society, "for having illuminated how Greek mathematics was absorbed in the medieval Arabic world, how mathematics developed in medieval Islam, and how it was eventually transmitted to Europe."

A bibliographyof Hogandijk's publications is included in his website.

Selected works

  • 1986: "Arabic traces of the lost works of Apollonius", Archive for History of Exact Sciences 35(3):187–253
  • 1987: "Observations on the icosahedron in Euclid's Elements", Historia Mathematica 14(2): 175–7
  • 1989: "Sharaf al-Din al-Tusi on the number of positive roots of cubic equations", Historia Mathematica 16(1):69–85
  • 1991: "Desargues’ Brouillon project and the Conics of Apollonius", Centaurus 34(1): 1–43.
  • 1994: "B.L. van der Waerden's detective work in ancient and medieval mathematical astronomy", Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde Vierde Serie 12(3): 145–58.
  • 1994: "Mathematics in medieval Islamic Spain", Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, pages 1568–80
  • 2008: "The Introduction to Geometry by Qusta ibn Luqa: translation and commentary", Suhayl 8: 163–221.
  • References

    Jan Hogendijk Wikipedia


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