Berggren, John -

Personal Information
First Name: 
John
Last Name: 
Berggren
Department / Program: 
OTHER
Other: 
Mathematics
University Affiliation: 
Simon Fraser University
Phone: 
604-936-2268
Email Address: 
Area of Research
Subject: 
Mathematics
Specific Area of Research: 
The mathematical sciences in ancient Greece and medieval Islam; geometrical works of the 10th century Persian scientist, Abu Sahl al-Kuhi
Academics
PHD Program: 
Mathematics
PHD University: 
University of Washington
PHD Date: 
1966
Major Publications: 
Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval Islam. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer-Verlag, 1986 (softcover ed'n 2003). A revised version of this work has been published in German, in 2011, as Mathematik im mittelalterlichen Islam (Springer Verlag). From Ancient Omens to Statistical Mechanics: Essays on the Exact Sciences Presented to Asger Aaboe (edited jointly with B.R. Goldstein). Munksgaard: Copenhagen, 1987.

 Euclid's Phaenomena: A Translation and Study of a Hellenistic Work in Spherical Astronomy. (jointly with R.S.D. Thomas), in the series Sources and Studies in Hellenistic Exact Sciences New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
Reprinted in 2006 in a softcover edition by the American Mathematical Society and the London Mathematical Society as Vol. 29 in the series History of Mathematics: Sources. Ptolemy's Geography: An annotated translation of the theoretical chapters (jointly with Alexander Jones). Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press (Hardcover edition: 2000; softcover edition 2002.)

 Pi: A Source Book (3rd Edition - jointly with J. and P. Borwein). New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004.


Courses Taught: 
History of Mathematics- MATHEMATICS 380, mathematics