Reviel Netz

Reviel Netz (born January 2, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a noted Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of Classics and of Philosophy at Stanford University.

Life and work

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University, obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied classics at Christ College, Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1995. From 1996 to 1999 Netz worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and concurrently in 1998 and 1999 worked as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT. In the fall of 1999 he took a position as an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Classics, where he has continued to teach and publish today.^[1][2] Netz's major research interest include the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices; for example the history of the book, visual culture, literacy and numeracy. He has several prominent publications in this field, most notably volumes I and II of The Archimedes Palimpsest. He also co-authored The Archimedes Codex with William Noel on the same subject matter but oriented towards a public audience. It received the Neumann Prize^[3] and has since been translated into twenty languages. He is the author of several additional works published by the Cambridge University Press, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999, Runciman Award), The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009). He has also appeared as a subject matter expert on PBS's Nova concerning ancient mathematics.^[4] In addition to his work on the history of mathematics, Reviel Netz has published award winning Hebrew Poetry, most notably 'Adayin Bahuc', published in 1999.

Authored and co-authored works

• The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. I: Catalogue and Commentary (with W. Noel et al.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2
• The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. II: Facsimile and Transcription (with W. Noel et al.), Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01684-2
• Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-89894-2
• The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest (co-authored with William Noel), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-306-81737-3
• Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, with a Critical Edition of the Diagrams and a Translation of Eutocius' commentaries, Vol. I: The Sphere and the Cylinder, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Barbwire: an Ecology of Modernity, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8195-6959-2
• The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-54120-6

See also

• Archimedes Palimpsest
• Academic Profile of Reviel Netz
• Curriculum Vitae of Reviel Netz
• 'Scholars decode ancient text, shake up pre-calculus'
• PBS Nova: Working with Infinity
• 'Leaping out of the Page, The use of Diagram in Greek Mathematics' The British Academy
• The Archimedes Codex – Professor Reviel Netz, Gresham College
• Expansion, Confrontation, Containment: An Interview with Reviel Netz
• The Netz-work of Greek deduction

References