Amy Dahan

Dahan in 2016

Amy Dahan-Dalmédico is a French mathematician, historian of mathematics, and historian of the politics of climate change.

Education and career

Dahan earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1979 and taught mathematics at the University of Amiens until 1983, when she became a researcher for the CNRS. She has also taught at the École Polytechnique, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, and Université libre de Bruxelles. She earned a second doctorate in the history of mathematics in 1990, and is an emeritus member of the Alexandre Koyré Center for Research in the History of Science and Technology.[1]

Books

Dahan is the author of:

• Une histoire des mathématiques: routes et dédales (with Jeanne Peiffer, Études Vivantes, 1982). Translated into English by Sanford Segal as History of Mathematics: Highways and Byways (American Mathematical Society, 2010). Also translated into German as Wege und Irrwege — Eine Geschichte der Mathematik (Birkhäuser, 1994) and into Russian as Пути и лабиринты: Очерки по истории математики (Mir, 1986).[2]
• Mathématiques au fil des âges (with J. Dhombres, R. Bkouche, C. Houzel, and M. Guillemot, Bordas, 1987)[3]
• Mathématisations: Augustin-Louis Cauchy et l'École Française (Éditions du Choix, 1992)[4]
• Jacques-Louis Lions, un mathématicien d'exception: entre recherche, industrie et politique (Éditions La Découverte, 2005)
• Les modèles du futur: changement climatique et scénarios économiques, enjeux scientifiques et politiques (Éditions La Découverte, 2007)[5]
• Gouverner le climat ? 20 ans de négociations internationales (with Stefan C. Aykut, Presses de Sciences Po, 2015)[6]

She is the editor of:

• La Formation polytechnicienne, 1794–1994 (with Bruno Belhoste and Antoine Picon, Dunod, 1994)[7]
• La France des X. Deux siècles d'histoire (with Bruno Belhoste, Dominique Pestre, and Antoine Picon, Economica, 1995)[8]
• Changing Images in Mathematics: From the French Revolution to the New Millennium (with Umberto Bottazini, Routledge, 2001).[9]

References

1. Amy Dahan Dalmedico, Centre Alexander-Koyré, retrieved 2019-01-20
2. Reviews of ''Une histoire des mathématiques and its translations:
   • Brouzeng, Paul (July–December 1983), Revue d'histoire des sciences, 36 (3/4): 355–356, JSTOR 23632220
   • Brânzei, Dan (1988), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0890326
   • Lützen, Jesper (1996), Mathematical Reviews, doi:10.1007/978-3-0348-6175-5, ISBN 978-3-0348-6176-2, MR 1324573
   • Tattersall, James (April 2010), "Review", MAA Reviews
   • Eaton, Charles (March 2011), The Mathematical Gazette, 95 (532): 149–150, doi:10.1017/S0025557200002643, JSTOR 23248650, S2CID 233356997
   • Dummitt, Nathan (October 2011), The Mathematics Teacher, 105 (3): 237, doi:10.5951/mathteacher.105.3.0236
   • Nagaraj, S. V. (December 2013), ACM SIGACT News, 44 (4): 27–28, doi:10.1145/2556663.2556667, S2CID 8163160
3. Review of Mathématiques au fil des âges:
   • Spalt, Detlef D. (May 1988), Educational Studies in Mathematics, 19 (2): 281–286, JSTOR 3482581
4. Reviews of Mathématisations:
   • Lewis, Albert C. (1994), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1202713
   • Goldstein, Catherine; Wolfson, Paul R. (February 1994), Historia Mathematica, 21 (1): 88–93, doi:10.1006/hmat.1994.1010
   • Fraser, Craig (September 1995), Isis, 86 (3): 501–502, doi:10.1086/357285, JSTOR 235068
5. Review of Les modèles du futur:
   • Locher, Fabien (July–September 2010), Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, 57e (3): 181–183, doi:10.3917/rhmc.573.0181, JSTOR 41061336
6. Review of Gouverner le climat:
   • Baillat, Alice (June 2015), Revue française de science politique, 65 (3): 504–506, JSTOR 24769608
7. Review of La Formation polytechnicienne:
   • Licoppe, Christian (July–September 1997), Revue d'histoire des sciences, 50 (3): 378, JSTOR 23633366
8. Review of La France des X:
   • Grelon, André (January 1998), Histoire de l'Éducation, 77 (77): 94–99, JSTOR 41159765
9. Review of Changing Images in Mathematics:
   • Nastasi, Pietro (July–December 2004), Revue d'histoire des sciences, 57 (2): 449–451, JSTOR 23634069