Jens Høyrup
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 81 |
Date of birth | October 22,1943 |
Zodiac sign | Libra |
Born | Copenhagen |
Denmark | |
Field | History of mathematics |
Education | Copenhagen University |
Books | Selected Essays on Pre- and Early Modern Mathematical Practice |
Jacopo Da Firenze's Tractatus Algorismi and Early Italian Abbacus Culture | |
Lengths, Widths, Surfaces: A Portrait of Old Babylonian Algebra and Its Kin | |
Human Sciences: Reappraising the Humanities Through History and Philosophy | |
As Regards the Humanities--: An Approach to Their Theory Through History and Philosophy | |
The Art of Knowing: An Essay on Epistemology in Practice | |
In Measure, Number, and Weight: Studies in Mathematics and Culture | |
Institutions, Professions, and Ideas: An Approach to the Theory of the Humanities Through Their History and Institutional Settings and Their Implicit Anthropologies ; Lecture Notes | |
Awards | Kenneth O. May Prize |
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ID | 1547348 |
Jens Høyrup Life story
Jens Egede Høyrup, born 1943 in Copenhagen, is a Danish historian of mathematics, specializing in pre-modern and early modern mathematics, ancient Mesopotamian mathematics in particular.