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 structurelle et morphogénèse) into English.
References
Obituary in The Guardian, 3 May 2004 by Christopher Zeeman. Obituary in The Independent, 24 May 2004.
External links Bibliography Book Review by Fernando Q. Gouvêa of The Mathematics of Plato's Academy Memorial symposium organized in his honor at Warwick, 9 November 2004.