Professor Mathematics
Lawrence University
“The Importance of Being Equivalent: Newton’s Two Models of One-Body Motion,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, submitted.
“Newton’s Argument for Proposition 1 of the Principia,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, to appear.
“The Integrability of Ovals: Newton’s Lemma 28 and its Counterexamples,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 55 No. 4 (2001), 479-499.
“Newton and the Notion of Limit,” Historia Mathematica, 28 No. 1 (2001), 18-30.
“Intuitionism as a Kuhnian Revolution in Mathematics,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 31 No. 2 (2000), 297-329.
“The Education of a Pure Mathematician,” The American Mathematical Monthly, 106 (1999), 720-732.
“The Preliminary Mathematical Lemmas of Newton’s Principia,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 52 (1998), 279-295.
“Reading the Master: Newton and the Birth of Celestial Mechanics,” The American Mathematical Monthly, 104 (1997), 1-19.
“Radical Principia: Book Two,” Hamiltonian Dynamical Systems: History, Theory, and Applications, edited by H.S. Dumas, K.R. Meyer, and D.S. Schmidt, The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Volume 63, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1995, 15-37.
“Radical Principia,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 44 (1992), 331-363.
“Newton’s Solution of the One-Body Problem,” Archive for History of Exact Sciences, 44 (1992), 125-146.
“On Newton’s Proof That Inverse-Square Orbits Must Be Conics,” Annals of Science, 48 (1991), 159-172.
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