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Jemma Lorenat is associate professor of mathematics at 兔子先生. Her work in the history of mathematics focuses on geometry, visualization and mediums of communication in the nineteenth century.
- PhD, Mathematics (2010 鈥 2015)
- Simon Fraser University (Canada) and Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
Doctoral programs in mathematics at the Department of Mathematics at SFU and at the Institut de math茅matiques de Jussieu, Paris Rive Gauche at UPMC
Thesis: 鈥淒ie Freude an der Gestalt: Methods, Figures, and Practices in Early
Nineteenth Century Geometry.鈥
Advisors: Prof. Thomas Archibald and Prof. Catherine Goldstein
- Simon Fraser University (Canada) and Universit茅 Pierre et Marie Curie (France)
- MA, Liberal Studies (2008 鈥 May 2010)
- City University of New York Graduate Center
Thesis: 鈥淭he development and reception of Leopold Kronecker鈥檚 philosophy of mathematics鈥
- City University of New York Graduate Center
- BA (Summa Cum Laude), Mathematics (2005 鈥 May 2007)
- San Francisco State University
- Undergraduate Studies (2004 鈥 2005)
- University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland
鈥淐ertain modern ideas and methods: 鈥済eometric reality鈥 in the mathematics of Charlotte Angas Scott鈥 Review of Symbolic Logic (forthcoming).
鈥淎ctual accomplishments in this world: the other students of Charlotte Angas Scott鈥 Mathematical Intelligencer (forthcoming).
鈥淛e n鈥檃i point ambitionn茅 d鈥櫭猼re neuf: modern geometry in early nineteenth-century French textbooks鈥 Interfaces between mathematical practices and mathematical eduation ed. Gert Schubring. Springer, 2019, pp. 69鈥122.
鈥淩adical, ideal and equal powers: naming objects in nineteenth century geometry鈥 Revue d鈥檋istoire des math茅matiques 23 (1), 2017, pp. 71鈥123.
鈥淢odern and pure: teaching geometry in early twentieth-century women鈥檚 colleges鈥 Women in Mathematics: 100 Years and Counting ed. Beery, Greenwald, Jensen-Vallin, and Mast. Springer, 2017, pp. 305 鈥 344.
鈥淭he greatest geometer since the time of Apollonius鈥 Mathematical Intelligencer 39(3), September 2017, pp. 46 鈥 52.
鈥淪ynthetic and analytic geometries in the publications of Jakob Steiner and Julius Pl眉cker (1827鈥1829)鈥 Archive for History of Exact Sciences 70(4), June 2016, pp. 413 鈥462.
鈥淧olemics in public: Poncelet, Gergonne, Pl眉cker, and the Duality Controversy鈥 Science in Context 28(4), December 2015, pp. 545 鈥 585.
鈥淔igures real, imagined and missing in Poncelet, Pl眉cker, and Gergonne鈥 Historia Mathematica 42(2), 2014, 155 鈥 192.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0315086014000767
鈥淣ot set in stone: nineteenth century geometrical constructions and the Malfatti Problem鈥 BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics 27(3), 2012, 169 鈥 180.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17498430.2012.676962
Mathematics in Practice Conference, Stanford, May 2019: 鈥淲hat is the use of a book without pictures?鈥
Workshop on duality as an archetype of mathematical thinking, Centre International de Rencontres Math茅matiques, Luminy, March 2019: 鈥淢arching two-by-two: the progress of duality in geometry during the early nineteenth-century.鈥
The Mathematical Association of America Golden Section, San Jose, February 2019: 鈥淒emands upon your imagination: developing mental images in ninteteenth-century pure geometry.鈥
International Congress of Mathematics, International Commission in the History of Mathematics Symposium, Rio, August 2018: 鈥淒emands upon your imagination: developing mental images in nineteenth-century pure geometry.鈥
Workshop on Modernism in Geometry: Scott and Hilbert, Universit茅 Denis Diderot, Paris, June, 2018: 鈥淐ertain Modern Ideas: the history, mathematics, and philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott.鈥
University of California Los Angeles, History of Science Seminar, June 2018: 鈥淐ertain Modern Ideas: the history, mathematics, and philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott.鈥
CIRMATH Americas, University of Virginia, May 2018: 鈥淢athematics for Philosophers: The Monist from 1890 to 1906.鈥
Anachronism(s) in the History of Mathematics: The Seventh Biennial Bacon Conference, California Institute of Technology, April 2018: 鈥淧ortraying Projective Geometry: The Presence and Absence of Measurement in Nineteenth Century Pure Geometry.鈥
Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences Colloquium, February 2018: 鈥淐ertain Modern Ideas and Methods. A look at the history and philosophy of Charlotte Angas Scott.鈥
Sonia Kovalevsky Mathematics Day 2018 Keynote Address, Pomona College, February 2018: 鈥淔irst, but not last. Charlotte Angas Scott and the history of women in mathematics.鈥
Southern California History and Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics Group, UC Riverside, January 2018: 鈥淎lgebraic symbols and geometrical reality in the writings of Charlotte Angas Scott.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, San Diego, January 2018 (Special session on alternative proofs in mathematics): 鈥淎lgebraic symbols and geometrical reality: the algebraic geometry of Charlotte Angas Scott.鈥
Atul Vyas Memorial lecture in mathematics, Claremont McKenna College, November 2017: 鈥淢aking Sense: A Historical Exploration of Intuition in Mathematics.鈥
California State University, Fullerton Mathematics Colloquium, November 2017: 鈥淧olemics in Public: the principle of duality in early nineteenth-century geometry.鈥
Association for Women in Mathematics, Los Angeles, April 2017: 鈥淐ertain Modern Ideas and Methods: Charlotte Angas Scott鈥檚 Philosophy of Mathematics.鈥
Philadelphia Area Society for the History of Mathematics, Villanova, December 2016: 鈥Anschauliche Geometrie in 1832: Jakob Steiner, the illustrated figure, and the imagination.鈥
Colorado State University History of Mathematics Seminar, Fort Collins, November 2016: 鈥淒efining Generality in Modern Pure Geometry: radical axes, ideal common chords, and lines of equal powers.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, Seattle, January 2016 (Invited session on the history of mathematics): 鈥淰orstellungskraft without sensory media.鈥
HSS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, November 2015. Roundtable on diagrammatic notational systems: 鈥淛akob Steiner鈥檚 virtual geometry.鈥
Doing Mathematics in Different Cultural Contexts, A Conference in honor of Judith V. Grabiner, 兔子先生, Claremont, October 2015: 鈥淩adical, ideal and equal powers: Renaming Points and Lines in Modern Geometry.鈥
Colloque 鈥1750鈥1850 : ruptures et continuit茅s en g茅om茅trie鈥 Nancy, June 2015: 鈥淓xamining the opposition between synthetic and analytic geometry in the early research of Jakob Steiner and Julius Pl眉cker.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, San Antonio, January 2015 (Invited session on the history of mathematics): 鈥淧olemics in public: Controversies around the principle of duality in early nineteenth century geometry.鈥
HSS Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2014. Session Organizer jointly with Abram Kaplan on Evidence in Mathematics: 鈥淭he figure and other forms of geometric evidence.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, Baltimore 2014 (Invited session on the history of mathematics: 鈥淛ulius Pl眉cker鈥檚 Pure Geometry.鈥
CMS Winter Meeting, Ottawa, Canada 2013: 鈥淛ulius Pl眉cker鈥檚 Pure Geometry.鈥
Alg猫bre, g茅om茅trie et th茅orie des nombres aux XVIIIe et XIXe si猫cles, Universit茅 de Nantes, France 2013: 鈥淐oncentric circles鈥 common chord at infinity.鈥
Seminaire d鈥檋istoire des sciences math茅matiques de l鈥橧nstitut de math茅matiques de Jussieu, Paris, France 2013: 鈥淐onic sections and polygons in the Annales de Gergonne.鈥
Novembertagung on the history of mathematics, Wuppertal, Germany 2012: 鈥淎 geometry by any other name.鈥
S茅minaire d鈥檋istoire des math茅matiques d鈥橧nstitut Henri Poincar茅, Paris, France 2012: 鈥淧osed problems and solutions in Gergonne鈥檚 Annales and Crelle鈥檚 Journal.鈥
Three-Society History of Science Meeting, Philadelphia, 2012: 鈥淔rom research to recreation, posed problems in 19th century journals.鈥
International Conference on the History of Modern Mathematics, Xi鈥檃n, China 2012: 鈥淔rom research to recreation, posed problems in 19th century journals.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, Boston 2012 (Invited paper, Special session in the history of mathematics): 鈥淣ot set in stone: 19th century geometrical constructions and the Malfatti Problem.鈥
CMS Winter Meeting, Toronto, Canada 2011: 鈥淣ot set in stone: 19th century geometrical constructions and the Malfatti Problem.鈥
Novembertagung on the history of mathematics, Paris, France 2011: 鈥淧oor Steiner鈥檚 Porism.鈥
Association for the Philosophy of Mathematical Practice Symposia, Nancy, France 2011: 鈥淜ronecker鈥檚 Constructs.鈥
AMS/MAA Joint Meeting, New Orleans 2011: 鈥淗ow Kroneckerian Became an Adjective.鈥
Novembertagung on the history of mathematics, Mainz, Germany 2010: 鈥淗ow Kroneckerian Became an Adjective.鈥
Maria Gaetana Agnesi Prize Third Centennial Prize (2018)
Montucla Prize, International Commission for the History of Mathematics (2017)
National Science Foundation Grant, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2016)
Graduate Travel Grant, American Mathematical Society (2014)
National Science Foundation Travel Grant, History of Science Society (2014)
Graduate International Research Award, Simon Fraser University (2012)
Leibniz Scholar, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (2012)
Graduate Fellowship, Simon Fraser University (2011, 2012)
Mathematics Student Teaching Award, Simon Fraser University (2011)
Philip Morrison Fellow, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science (2011)
Department Graduate Entrance Scholarship, Simon Fraser University (2010)
Mathematics Departmental Honoree, San Francisco State University (2007)
Column Editor, 鈥淵ears Ago鈥 Mathematical Intelligencer (vols. 39 and following)
鈥淏ook Review: A Richer Picture of Mathematics, David Rowe鈥 Notices of the American Mathematical Society (forthcoming).
鈥淏ook Review: Pushing Limits, Ted Hill鈥 Historia Mathematica 45(3), 2018, 304鈥305.
鈥淎nalyses d鈥橭uvrages: Lise Bioesmat-Martagon (茅d.) El茅ments d鈥檜ne biographie de l鈥橢space g茅om茅trique鈥 Revue d鈥檋istoire des sciences 69(2), 2016, 403鈥405.
鈥淏ook Review: Sciences Math茅matiques 1750鈥1850: continuit茅s et ruptures, Christian Gilain, Alexandre Guilbaud (eds.)鈥 Historia Mathematica 43(4), 2016, 446鈥449.
Organizer, Claremont History and Philosophy of Mathematics Seminar (2016 鈥損resent).
Co-organizer, Joint Mathematics Meeting History of Mathematics Seminar (January 2018, January 2019)
Co-organizer, The Orange County and Inland Empire Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics and Logic (2017 鈥 present).
Coordinator, Gateway for Exploring Mathematical Sciences (2015 鈥 2017).
Cover illustration,
鈥揗athematical Intelligencer 39(3), 2017
鈥揗athematical Intelligencer 40(3), 2018
Series of mathematicians鈥 portraits drawn for the presentation, 鈥淗ow Kroneckerian Became an Adjective,鈥 for the AMS/MAA Joint Meeting in 2011.
Mathematician Portrait Gallery, MAA Mathematical Sciences Digital Library
2015 鈥 Present, 兔子先生 (Claremont, CA), Assistant Professor of Mathematics
2013 鈥 2015, Pratt Institute (Brooklyn), Visiting Instructor
2013 颅鈥 2015, St Joseph鈥檚 College (Brooklyn), Visiting Instructor
2010 鈥 2012, Simon Fraser University, Teaching Assistant
2009 鈥 2010, College Now, Hunter College (New York), Instructor
2007 鈥 2010, Middle Grades Initiative, City University of New York