Antoni Malet
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Antoni Malet (on the left) with Karine Chemla (middle) and Eberhard Knobloch (right), Oberwolfach 2009
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| Born | 23 February 1950 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Fields | History of science |
| Institutions | Pompeu Fabra University |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Gillispie |
Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of history of science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona.[1] His research interests are mostly in the history of mathematics and optics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.[2]
Malet earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from Princeton University as a student of Charles Gillispie, with the thesis Studies on James Gregorie (1638–1675).[3]
Selected publications
- "From Indivisibles to Infinitesimals. Studies on Seventeenth-Century Mathematizations of Infinitely Small Quantities". Barcelona 1996.
- "Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer (1912–1967)". Barcelona 1995.
- with J. Paradís: "Els orígens i l’ensenyament de l’àlgebra simbòlica" (in Catalan). Barcelona 1984.
- "James Gregorie on Tangents and the “Taylor” Rule of Series Expansions". Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Volume 46, 1993, 97–137.
- "Mil años de matematicas en Iberia". In: A. Duran (Herausgeber): El legado de las matematicas. Universität Sevilla 2000, S. 193–224.
- "Kepler and the Telescope". Annals of Science, 60, 2003, 107–36.
- "Isaac Barrow on the Mathematization of Nature: Theological Voluntarism and the Rise of Geometrical Optics". Journal of the History of Ideas, 58, 1997, 265–287.
- "Gregorie, Descartes, Kepler, and the Law of Refraction". Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 40, 1990, 278–304.
