Joseph Warren Dauben (born December 29, 1944, Santa Monica) is a Distinguished Professor of History at Herbert H. Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. City University of New York. Accessed 28 May 2011 He obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 1972. His PhD thesis The early development of Cantorian Set Theory was supervised by Dirk Struik.
Dauben's fields of expertise are the history of science, the history of mathematics, the Scientific Revolution, the sociology of science, intellectual history, the 17th and 18th centuries, the history of Chinese science, and the history of botany.
Positions Dauben is a 1980 Guggenheim fellow.Fellows , John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Accessed 27 May 2011
He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (since 1982).Faculty profile , Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Accessed 27 May 2011
Dauben is an elected member (1991) of the International Academy of the History of ScienceJoseph Warren Dauben, International Academy of the History of Science. Accessed 27 May 2011 and an elected foreign member (2001) of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.Academy members: Joseph W. Dauben , German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. Accessed 27 May 2011
In 1985–1994 Dauben served as the chair of the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics.A Brief History of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM). International Commission on History of Mathematics. Accessed 27 May 2011
Dauben delivered an invited lecture at the 1998 International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin on Karl Marx's mathematical work.Proceedings of the International Congress of Mathematicians, Berlin 1998, Extra Volume ICM 1998. Documenta Mathematica,
The creator of non-standard analysis, Abraham Robinson was the subject of Dauben's 1995 book Abraham Robinson. It was reviewed positively by Moshé Machover, but the review noted that it avoids discussing any of Robinson's negative aspects, and "in this respect [the book] borders on the hagiographic, painting a portrait without warts."Machoover, Moshé (1996) "Review: Joseph Warren Dauben, Abraham Robinson: The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47: 137–140
In 2002 Dauben became an honorary member of the Institute for History of Natural Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.New Faculty , 365 Fifth, April 2004, Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Accessed 27 May 2011 In 2012 he received the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society (AMS).
Publications 1979: Georg Cantor, His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Harvard University Press,
1995: Abraham Robinson, The Creation of Nonstandard Analysis: A Personal and Mathematical Odyssey, Princeton University Press,
Articles, reviews, and essays 1985: "Abraham Robinson and Nonstandard Analysis: History, Philosophy, and Foundations of Mathematics", in William Aspray and Philip Kitcher, eds. History and Philosophy of Modern Mathematics, pages 177–200, Minnesota Studies in Philososphy of Science XI, University of Minnesota Press, 1988. Online here. 1991: "La Matematica," in W. Shea editor, Storia delle Scienze. LeScienze Fisiche e Astronomiche (Milano: Banca Popolare di Milano, and Einaudi, 1992) pp. 258–280 1992: "Are There Revolutions in Mathematics?" in The Space of Mathematics (editors J. Echieverria, A. Ibarra and T. Mormann) (Berlin: De Gruyter), pp. 203–226. 1992: "Conceptual Revolutions and the History of Mathematics: Two Studies in the Growth of Knowledge", Chapter 4 of D. Gillies, editor, Revolutions in Mathematics, Clarendon Press pp. 49–71. 1992: "Revolutions Revisited", Chapter 5 of D. Gillies, editor, Revolutions in Mathematics (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 72–82. 2008: "Suan shu shu. A book on numbers and computations", translated from the Chinese and with commentary by Joseph W. Dauben. Archive for History of Exact Sciences 62(2): 91–178. 2015: with Marjorie Senechal,
See also Criticism of non-standard analysis
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