Mathematician:David Herbert Fowler

Mathematician

British historian of mathematics whose thesis concerned the study of ratios as used in ancient Greece before the work of Eudoxus of Cnidus.

Nationality

British

History

• Born: April 28, 1937, Blackburn, England
• Died: 13 April 2004, Warwick, England

Publications

• 1973: Introducing Real Analysis
• 1979: Ratio in Early Greek Mathematics
• 1980: Book II of Euclid's Elements and a Pre-Eudoxan Theory of Ratio
• 1981: Anthyphairetic Ratio and Eudoxan Proportion
• 1982: A Generalization of the Golden Section
• 1987: The Mathematics of Plato's Academy
• 1999: The Mathematics of Plato's Academy, 2nd ed.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "David Herbert Fowler": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $2$: The Logic of Shape: The golden mean