Clemency Montelle
{{short description|New Zealand historian of mathematics}}
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Clemency Montelle (born 8 July 1977){{r|cv}} is a New Zealand historian of mathematics known for her research on Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.{{r|nzms|rsnz}} She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Canterbury,{{r|cv|profile}} and a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute of the Victoria University of Wellington.{{r|nziri}}
Education
Montelle is originally from Christchurch.{{r|nzms}} She earned first class honours in mathematics and classical studies at the University of Canterbury in 1999, and completed a master's degree there in 2000.{{r|cv}} It was not until the fourth year of her studies that, finding a copy of Euclid in the original Greek, she realized that she could reconcile her two interests by working in the history of mathematics.{{r|nzms|rsnz}}
She became a Fulbright Scholar at Brown University, where she learned Cuneiform, Sanskrit, and Arabic.{{r|rsnz|nzg}} She completed a Ph.D. in the history of mathematics there in 2005;{{r|cv}} at Brown, her faculty mentors included David Pingree, Alice Slotsky, and Kim Plofker.{{r|erc}}
Service
Montelle was vice president of the Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy for the 2017–2021 term.{{r|chama}}
Books
Montelle is the author of the book Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early Reckoning of Eclipse theory (Johns Hopkins Press, 2011).{{r|cs}} With Kim Plofker, she is the coauthor of Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (Springer, 2019).{{r|sat}}
References
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- {{citation|last=Bowen|first=Alan C.|date=June 2013|doi=10.1086/672171|issue=2|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/672171|pages=385–387|title=none|volume=104}}
- {{citation|last=Duke|first=Dennis|date=November 2012|doi=10.1177/002182861204300410|issue=4|journal=Journal for the History of Astronomy|pages=500–502|title=none|volume=43|s2cid=122471382}}
- {{citation|last=Kerszberg|first=Pierre|journal=MathSciNet|mr=2919869|title=none}}
- {{citation|last=Linton|first=Christopher|date=March 2012|edition=3|pages=430–433|title=Notices of the American Mathematical Society|url=https://www.ams.org/notices/201203/rtx120300430p.pdf|volume=59}}
- {{citation|last=McCleary|first=John|date=January 2014|journal=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/chasing-shadows-mathematics-astronomy-and-the-early-history-of-eclipse-reckoning}}
Reviews of Sanskrit Astronomical Tables:
- {{citation|last=Dani|first=S. G.|journal=MathSciNet|mr=3929708|title=none}}
- {{citation|last=Guthery|first=Scott|date=August 2019|journal=MAA Reviews|publisher=Mathematical Association of America|title=Review|url=https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/sanskrit-astronomical-tables}}
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External links
- [https://www.math.canterbury.ac.nz/~c.montelle/ Home page]
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Category:New Zealand women mathematicians
Category:Historians of mathematics
Category:University of Canterbury alumni
Category:Academic staff of the University of Canterbury
Category:Academic staff of Victoria University of Wellington
Category:Brown University alumni