Helena Pycior

Helena Mary Pycior
Born	1947
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Cornell University
Occupation	historian

Helena Mary Pycior (born 1947)[1] 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.[2]

Education

Pycior has a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in history, both from Cornell University.[2] Her 1976 doctoral dissertation was titled The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra.[3]

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),[4] and the coeditor of Creative Couples in the Sciences (with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am, Rutgers University Press, 1996).[5]

References

1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-09-04
2. "Pycior, Helena: Professor Emerita", History people, University of Wisconsin–Madison, retrieved 2020-09-04
3. WorldCat catalog entry for The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra, retrieved 2020-09-04
4. Reviews of Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements:
   • Harkleroad, L., zbMATH, Zbl 0876.01002
   • Rouvray, Dennis H. (January 1998), Endeavour, 22 (1): 39, doi:10.1016/s0160-9327(97)86420-4
   • Seltman, Muriel (October 1998), Annals of Science, 55 (4): 438–440, doi:10.1080/00033799800200271
   • Richards, Joan L. (December 1998), Isis, 89 (4): 728–729, doi:10.1086/384188, JSTOR 236766
   • Galuzzi, Massimo (1999), Mathematical Reviews, MR 1470715
   • Henry, John (April 1999), The English Historical Review, 114 (456): 450–451, doi:10.1093/ehr/114.456.450, JSTOR 580149
   • Guicciardini, Niccolò (March 1999), "Bifocal mathematics", Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 30 (1): 183–189, doi:10.1016/s0039-3681(98)00025-9
   • Feingold, Mordechai (December 1999), The American Historical Review, 104 (5): 1752–1753, doi:10.2307/2649492, JSTOR 2649492
   • Schubring, Gert (August 2005), Historia Mathematica, 32 (3): 363–366, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.001
5. Reviews of Creative Couples in the Sciences:
   • Sime, Ruth Lewin (July 19, 1996), Science, New Series, 273 (5273): 316, doi:10.1126/science.273.5273.316, JSTOR 2889732
   • Cain, Joe (Summer 1997), Journal of the History of Biology, 30 (2): 311–313, JSTOR 4331441
   • Genovese, Rosalie G. (September 1997), Isis, 88 (3): 521–522, JSTOR 236163
   • Rossiter, Margaret W. (February 1998), The American Historical Review, 103 (1): 144–146, doi:10.2307/2650790, JSTOR 2650790, S2CID 144786519