Serafina Cuomo

Cuomo achieved a bachelor's degree in Philosophy at the University of Naples. She received a doctorate in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge in 1995, with a PhD thesis titled "The ghost of mathematicians past: tradition and innovation in Pappus' Collectio Mathematica".{{Cite web|website=University of Cambridge|url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21432502970003606|title=The ghost of mathematicians past: tradition and innovation in Pappus' "Collectio Mathematica".|access-date=10 July 2025}}

Cuomo has published on topics in ancient mathematics, including computing practices in ancient Rome and the mathematician Pappus of Alexandria, and the history of technology.{{citation|url=https://www.gresham.ac.uk/professors-and-speakers/dr-serafina-cuomo/|title=Dr Serafina Cuomo|publisher=Gresham College}}

Cuomo formerly worked as a lecturer at Imperial College London, Birkbeck University of London, and Durham University.{{citation|url=http://koyre.ehess.fr/index.php?2903|title=Serafina Cuomo|publisher=Centre Alexandre-Koyré}}. In March 2024, she was elected A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, taking up the post from September 2024.{{Cite web|website=University of Cambridge|title=Election of two new Professors in the Faculty of Classics|last=Warren|first=James|url=https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/election-two-new-professors-faculty-classics|date=27 March 2024|access-date=9 July 2025}}

In 2019, Cuomo participated in the EHESS ([https://www.ehess.fr/fr École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales]).{{citation|url=http://mathshistoire.ehess.fr/evenements/|title=Événements|publisher=Groupe de recherches Mathématiques et Histoire, École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales}}

• Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity (Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press, 2000)Reviews of Pappus of Alexandria:
• {{citation|last=Bechtle|first=Gerard|issue=4|journal=Museum Helveticum|jstor=24822187|page=238|title=none|volume=58|year=2001}}
• {{citation|last=Guicciardini|first=Niccolò|issue=1|journal=Early Science and Medicine|jstor=4130282|pages=48–50|title=none|volume=6|year=2001}}
• {{citation|last=Federspiel|first=Michel|journal=Revue des Études Anciennes|year=2001|volume=103|issue=3–4|pages=557–559|title=Review|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/rea_0035-2004_2001_num_103_3_4849_t1_0557_0000_3}}
• {{citation|last=Hogendijk|first=Jan P.|date=April 2001|issue=2|journal=Mnemosyne|series=Fourth Series|jstor=4433205|pages=233–235|title=none|volume=54}}
• {{citation|last=Høyrup|first=Jens|date=June 2001|issue=2|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=4028015|pages=240–242|title=none|volume=34}}
• {{citation|last=Deman|first=Albert|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|jstor=41667037|pages=385–386|title=none|volume=71|year=2002}}
• {{citation|last=Asper|first=Markus|issue=1|journal=Gnomon|jstor=40493615|pages=8–11|title=none|volume=74|year=2002}}
• {{citation|first=Richard L.|last=Francis|title=none|journal=Mathematical Reviews|year=2002|mr=1829013}}
• {{citation|last=Behboud|first=Ali|date=March 2002|doi=10.1086/343272|issue=1|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/343272|pages=102–103|title=none|volume=93}}
• {{citation|last=Robertson|first=Edmund|doi=10.2307/3184763|journal=The Journal of Roman Studies|jstor=3184763|pages=420–421|title=none|volume=93|year=2003}}

• Ancient Mathematics (Sciences of Antiquity, Routledge, 2001)Reviews of Ancient Mathematics:
• {{citation|last=Saito|first=Ken|date=June 2002|doi=10.1086/344984|issue=2|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/344984|pages=295–296|title=none|volume=93}}
• {{citation|last=Muccigrosso|first=John D.|date=Fall 2002|issue=1|journal=The Classical Outlook|jstor=43939634|pages=36–37|title=none|volume=80}}
• {{citation|last=Tybjerg|first=Karin|doi=10.2307/3184668|journal=The Journal of Roman Studies|jstor=3184668|pages=324–325|title=none|volume=93|year=2003}}
• {{citation|last=Delire|first=Jean Michel|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|jstor=41664444|pages=485–488|title=none|volume=72|year=2003}}
• {{citation|last=Gow|first=Roderick|journal=Classics Ireland|jstor=25624500|pages=88–94|title=none|volume=10|year=2003}}
• {{citation|last=Imhausen|first=Annette|authorlink=Annette Imhausen|journal=Aestimatio|title=Review|volume=2|year=2005|pages=49–57|url=https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/25739}}

• Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History, Cambridge University Press, 2007)Reviews of Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity:
• {{citation|last=Rihll|first=T. E.|journal=The Journal of Roman Studies|jstor=20430685|pages=201–202|title=none|volume=98|year=2008|doi=10.1017/S0075435800001878}}
• {{citation|last=Federspiel|first=Michel|journal=L'Antiquité Classique|jstor=41813135|pages=563–564|title=none|volume=77|year=2008}}
• {{citation|last=Di Pasquale|first=Giovanni|doi=10.1163/182539108x00067|issue=1|journal=Nuncius|pages=127–128|title=none|volume=23|year=2008}}
• {{citation|last=Marchand|first=Jeannette|journal=Classical Bulletin|title=Review|volume=85|issue=1|pages=76–77|id={{ProQuest|1401479944}}}}
• {{citation|last=Olshin|first=Benjamin B.|date=March 2009|doi=10.1086/599651|issue=1|journal=Isis|jstor=10.1086/599651|pages=149–150|title=none|volume=100}}
• {{citation|last=Asper|first=Markus|date=April 2009|issue=1|journal=The Classical Review|jstor=20482759|pages=269–272|series=New Series|title=none|volume=59|doi=10.1017/S0009840X08002849}}
• {{citation|last=Koloski-Ostrow|first=Ann Olga|authorlink=Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow|date=April 2009|issue=2|journal=Technology and Culture|jstor=40345617|pages=450–452|title=An overture to The Oxford Handbook|volume=50|doi=10.1353/tech.0.0283|s2cid=110913138}}
• {{citation|last=Robson|first=Eleanor|authorlink=Eleanor Robson|date=September 2009|issue=3|journal=The British Journal for the History of Science|jstor=25592288|pages=451–453|title=none|volume=42|doi=10.1017/S0007087409990239}}
• {{citation|last=Walton|first=S. A.|date=February 2012|doi=10.1080/00033790902898359|issue=2|journal=Annals of Science|pages=295–297|title=none|volume=69|s2cid=145731774}}

• “Skills and virtues in Vitruvius’ book 10”, in M. Formisano (ed.), War in Words, Leiden: Brill 2011, 309-32
• “All the proconsul’s men: Cicero, Verres and account-keeping”, Annali dell’Università degli studi di Napoli ‘L’ Orientale’. Sezione filologico-letteraria. Quaderni 15, Naples 2011, 165-85
• “A Roman engineer’s tales”, Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011), 143-65
• “Measures for an emperor: Volusius Maecianus’ monetary pamphlet for Marcus Aurelius”, in J. König & T. Whitmarsh (eds.), Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire, Cambridge University Press 2007, 206-228
• “The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica”, in C. J. Tuplin & T. E. Rihll (eds.), Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2002, 165-77
• “Divide and rule: Frontinus and Roman land-surveying”, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 31 (2000), 189-202
• “Shooting by the book: Notes on Tartaglia's ‘Scientia Nova’”, History of Science 35 (1997), 155-88

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