Helena Pycior
{{short description|American historian}}
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Helena Mary Pycior (born 1947){{r|born}} is an American historian known for her works in the history of mathematics, Marie Curie, and human-animal relations. She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.{{r|mad}}
Education
Pycior has a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in history, both from Cornell University.{{r|mad}} Her 1976 doctoral dissertation was titled The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra.{{r|diss}}
Books
Pycior is the author of the book Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Cambridge University Press, 1997),{{r|sin}} and the coeditor of Creative Couples in the Sciences (with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am, Rutgers University Press, 1996).{{r|cc}}
References
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Reviews of Creative Couples in the Sciences:
- {{citation
| last = Sime | first = Ruth Lewin
| date = July 19, 1996
| doi = 10.1126/science.273.5273.316
| issue = 5273
| journal = Science
| jstor = 2889732
| page = 316
| series = New Series
| title = none
| volume = 273}}
- {{citation
| last = Cain | first = Joe
| date = Summer 1997
| issue = 2
| journal = Journal of the History of Biology
| jstor = 4331441
| pages = 311–313
| title = none
| volume = 30}}
- {{citation
| last = Genovese | first = Rosalie G.
| date = September 1997
| issue = 3
| journal = Isis
| jstor = 236163
| pages = 521–522
| title = none
| volume = 88}}
- {{citation
| last = Rossiter | first = Margaret W.
| date = February 1998
| doi = 10.2307/2650790
| issue = 1
| journal = The American Historical Review
| jstor = 2650790
| pages = 144–146
| title = none
| volume = 103| s2cid = 144786519
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Reviews of Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements:
- {{citation
| last = Harkleroad | first = L.
| journal = zbMATH
| title = none
| zbl = 0876.01002}}
- {{citation
| last = Rouvray | first = Dennis H.
| date = January 1998
| doi = 10.1016/s0160-9327(97)86420-4
| issue = 1
| journal = Endeavour
| page = 39
| title = none
| volume = 22}}
- {{citation
| last = Seltman | first = Muriel | author-link = Muriel Seltman
| date = October 1998
| doi = 10.1080/00033799800200271
| issue = 4
| journal = Annals of Science
| pages = 438–440
| title = none
| volume = 55}}
- {{citation
| last = Richards | first = Joan L. | author-link = Joan L. Richards
| date = December 1998
| issue = 4
| journal = Isis
| jstor = 236766
| pages = 728–729
| title = none
| volume = 89| doi = 10.1086/384188 }}
- {{citation
| last = Galuzzi | first = Massimo
| journal = Mathematical Reviews
| mr = 1470715
| title = none
| year = 1999}}
- {{citation
| last = Henry | first = John
| date = April 1999
| issue = 456
| journal = The English Historical Review
| jstor = 580149
| pages = 450–451
| title = none
| volume = 114| doi = 10.1093/ehr/114.456.450
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- {{citation
| last = Guicciardini | first = Niccolò
| date = March 1999
| doi = 10.1016/s0039-3681(98)00025-9
| issue = 1
| journal = Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A
| pages = 183–189
| title = Bifocal mathematics
| volume = 30}}
- {{citation
| last = Feingold | first = Mordechai
| date = December 1999
| doi = 10.2307/2649492
| issue = 5
| journal = The American Historical Review
| jstor = 2649492
| pages = 1752–1753
| title = none
| volume = 104}}
- {{citation
| last = Schubring | first = Gert
| date = August 2005
| doi = 10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.001
| issue = 3
| journal = Historia Mathematica
| pages = 363–366
| title = none
| volume = 32| doi-access = free
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Category:20th-century American mathematicians
Category:21st-century American mathematicians
Category:American historians of mathematics
Category:Cornell University alumni
Category:University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Category:American women historians
Category:20th-century American women mathematicians
Category:21st-century American women mathematicians
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