David Fowler (mathematician)

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{{Infobox scientist

| name = David Fowler

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|4|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Blackburn, England

| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|4|13|1937|4|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Warwick, England

| alma_mater = Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

| known_for = Greek mathematics

| occupation = Mathematician

| workplaces = Manchester University
University of Warwick

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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 strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.