Major Publications:
The Cosmos: A Historical Perspective (Greenwood Publishers, 2006).
“1744 Leonhard Euler, book on the calculus of variations” and “Joseph Louis Lagrange, Théorie des fonctions analytiques,” in Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940, Ed. I. Grattan-Guinness. (Elsevier, 2005). pp. 168-180 and pp. 208-224.
“The Calculus of Variations: A Historical Survey,” in A History of Analysis, Ed. H. N. Jahnke, (American Mathematical Society, 2003), pp. 355-384.
“The Early History of Hamilton-Jacobi Theory,” Centaurus 44 (2003), pp. 161-227. With Michiyo Nakane.
"History of Mathematics in the Eighteenth Century", in Roy Porter (Ed.), The Cambridge History of Science Volume 4 Eighteenth-Century Science (2003), pp. 305-327.
Calculus and Analytical Mechanics in the Age of Enlightenment (Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate, 1997).
Membership in Academic Societies:
International Academy of the History
of Science, Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Science Society, American Mathematical Society, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, International Commission on the History of Mathematics
Courses Taught:
Graduate Courses
HPS5001H Fundamentals of the History of Mathematics
HPS1052H Topics in the History of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Mathematics
HPS5009H Fundamentals of the History of Astronomy
Undergraduate Courses
INX 199 History of Cosmology
HPS/MAT 390H History of Mathematics before 1700
HPS/MAT 391H History of Mathematics after 1700
HPS 360 History of Modern Cosmology
HPS 200 Scientific Revolutions