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1 CURRICULUM VITAE

Ronald S. Calinger

II. Education

Ph. D. University of Chicago (History of Science) l97l

Dissertation: "The Introduction of Newtonian Natural Philosophy In to Russia and Prussia, 1725 - l772" Advisers: Allen Debus and Saunders Mac Lane

M. A. University of Pittsburgh (European History) l964 A. B. Ohio University Summa cum laude l963

III. Work Experience and Professional Record

The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.

Associate Professor to Ordinary Professor of History, 1985 - Present Dean, the School of Arts and Sciences, 1985 - 1987

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Dean, The Undergraduate College, l982 - l985 Chairperson, Department of History and Political Science, l977 - l982 Instructor to Assoc. Professor of History, l969 - 1977 IV. Academic Honors

Foley Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from the National Board of Directors of Alpha Delta Gamma, 2001

2 Austrian Cross for the Sciences and Arts, First Class, 1996

Henry Schumann Prize in the History of Science, 1968 Ford Fellow, l967 - l968 Phi Beta Kappa 1963

V. Primary Areas for Research and Writing

History of Mathematics (mid-l7c. - early 20 c.), the Exact Sciences and the Continental Enlightenment, and Scientific Biography (G. Leibniz and L. Euler)

VI. Professional Societies

The Euler Society, a founding member with John Glaus and C. Edward Sandifer as well as its first Chancellor (see www.eulersociety.org ) American Historical Association Atlantic Council of the United States (Academic associate) Mathematical Association of America (Committee on the History of Mathematics) History of Science Society (Washington representative and ex officio, Committee on Research and the Profession, 1992 - Present)

VII. Publications

A.Books

A Contextual History of Mathematics: to Euler (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1999), xxviii + 751 pp. (Author)

Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching (Washington, D. C.: Mathematical Association of America, 1996), 347 folio pp. + index. (Editor) This volume is

3 reviewed in The American Mathematical Monthly 104, 5, 1997: 471 - 478.

Classics of Mathematics (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice Hall, revised.and expanded ed., 1995), 793 pp. (Editor and author of historical sections) (1st ed. 1982)

Dictionary of Twentieth-Century World Politics (New York: Henry Holt, 1993) 760 pp. (Co-author), Rev. in Choice, January 1994, 31-2449, p. 762.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, (Allen Memorial), (New York: Science History Publications, l976) (Author) 102 pp., Rev. in Isis, l979, 70 (253), 466-467

World Who's Who in Science from Antiquity to the Present (Chicago: Marquis, l968) (Associate Editor) Rev. in Science, 23 January l970, 363.

B. Articles and Chapters or Sections in Books

"Leonhard Euler: The First St. Petersburg Years (1727 - 1741)," Historia Mathematica 23 (1996): 121 - 166.

"The Mathematics Seminar at the University of Berlin: Origins, Founding, and the Kummer- Weierstrass Years," in Calinger, ed., Vita Mathematica, pp. 153 - 176.

"Nationalism in Europe: A Historical Overview to 1900," in N. V. Chavchavadze, Ghia Nodia, and Paul Peachey, eds., National Identity as an Issue of Knowledge and Morality: Georgian Philosophical Studies I (Washington, D. C.: Council for Research in Values and Philosophy and Bucharest: Paideia Press, 1994), pp. 9 - 35.

4 "Frederick the Great, 1712 - 1786," in John E. Findling and Frank W. Thackeray, eds., Statesmen Who Changed the World (Greenwood, 1993), 213 - 224.

"Analyses and Treatises," [Leonhard Euler], World & I, vol. 4, no. 5, 1989, 312 - 317.

"Mathematical Innovator and Reformer," [G. Boole and Modern Computers], World & I, vol. 3, no. 8, l988, l94 - l99.

"Leonhard Euler: The Swiss Years," Methodology and Science l6, 2 (l983), 69 – 89.

"Albert Einstein: Theoretical Physicist and Humanitarian," Methodology and Science, l2, 3 (l979), l09 - l64.

"Kant and Newtonian Science: The Pre-Critical Period," Isis l979, 70 (253), 349 - 362.

Entries for "G. A. Bliss," pp. 67 - 68; and "L. E. Dickson," pp. l75 - l77; in John A. Garraty (ed.), Dictionary of American Biography: Supplement Five l95l-l955 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, l977).

"Euler's Letters to a Princess of Germany as an Expression of His Mature Scientific Outlook," Archive for History of Exact Sciences l5, 3 (l976), 211 - 233.

"The German Classical Weltanschauung in the Physical Sciences," l - l9 in Wilson Scott et al., The Influence of Early Enlightenment Thought Upon German Classical Science and Letters (New York: Science History Publications, l972)

Entries for "E. H. Moore," IX (l974), pp. 50l -

5 503; "L.E. Dickson," IV (l97l), pp. 82 - 83; "J. Castillon," III (l97l), pp. ll9 - l20; "P. Boutroux," II (l970), pp. 357 - 359; "O. Bolza," II (l970), pp. 27l - 272; and "G. A. Bliss," II (l970), pp. l98 - l99; in Charles Coulston Gillispie (editor-in-chief), Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, l970 - l990), l8 Volumes.

"The Newtonian-Wolffian Controversy (l74l - l759)," Journal of the History of Ideas, III, 3 (l969), 3l9 - 33l.

"The Newtonian-Wolffian Confrontation in the St.Petersburg Academy of the Sciences (l725 - l746)," Cahiers d'histoire mondiale, XI, 3 (l968), Henry Schumann Prize Paper in the History of Science, 4l7 - 436.

"Frederick the Great and the Berlin Academy of Sciences(l740 - l776)," Annals of Science, 24,3(l968), 239 - 249.

VIII. Grants, Invited Papers, and Other Publications

A. Grants

Hitachi Foundation Grant for “Information Technology and Historical Studies of Mathematics” ($100,000) URL: http://ivihsm.cua.edu 1998 – 2001

This grant supported the establishment of the International Virtual Institute for Historical Studies of Mathematics with sixteen faculty from around the globe, the development of an active Web site, and presenting sessions at the national meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society.

6 Reviewer of Proposals for the National Science Foundation (History and Philosophy of Science), 1979 - Present

Author of the historiography section for the NSF grant for an "Institute in the History of Mathematics and its Uses in Teaching" held at American University in June 1995, 1996, and 1997, and continued at Catholic University in 1998 and 1999.

B. Invited Papers

More than a dozen invited papers given at the annual meetings of the societies in part VI and at such universities as Cincinnati, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. These include:

"Commentary" for the session "The Spectacle of Science in an Age of Religion," American Catholic Historical Association in San Francisco, l989

"The History of Science in National Cultural Contexts: Pros and Cons," History of Science Society Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, 1991.

"Origins of the Mathematics Seminar at the University of Berlin," History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Quadrennial Meeting, Toronto, 1992

"Leonhard Euler in St. Petersburg I," at the Mathematical Association of America/American Mathematics Society Annual Joint Meetings in San Francisco, January 1995

“Why Study the History of Mathematics?” (Commentator) at the MAA/AMS Joint Meetings in Washington, D. C. 2000

“Euler: Growing Recognition at the Paris Academy

7 of Sciences and Arrival in Berlin,” The National Museum of American History, Washington, D. C, Summer, 2000,

Euler In Berlin: the First Decade” MAA/AMS Joint Meetings in New Orleans, 2001

“Euler in Berlin to 1753,” XXIst International Congress of the History of Science Society, Mexico City, Summer, 2001

C. Other Publications

Editor, International Study Group on the Relations between History and Pedagogy of Mathematics Newsletter (3 times yearly) "Have You Read Section?" from No. 19 (July 1990), pp. 13 - 15 to No. 40 (March 1997), p. 12.

Fifty book reviews and encyclopedia sketches. Re- views appear in the American Scientist, Catholic Historical Review, Historia Mathematica, Isis, Science, and Sixteenth-Century Studies. Examples of both are:

Leonhardi Euleri, Sol et Luna II. Edited by Charles Blanc, Isis, 85, 3 (1994), pp. 521 - 522.

Arsenij Gulyga, Immanuel Kant: His Life and Thought, Isis, 80, 3 (l989), pp. 529 - 53l.

Entries for "Archimedes" (vol.l), "Euclid," (vol. 6), "Christian Huygens," (vol. 9), and "Blaise Pascal"(vol.l5) in The World Book Encyclopedia (l990 edition). Entry for "Hypatia".

8 VIII. Recent Critical Issues’ Discussions

Arranged four sessions on writing a history of mathematics, ancient sources, twentieth-century mathematics, and the development of modern computers at the joint meetings of the American Mathematics Society and Mathematical Association of America in Washington, D. C. in January 2000. Speakers included Ioan James (Oxford), Joseph Dauben (CUNY), Liu Dun (China), Michael Monastyrsky (Moscow), Reviel Netz (Stanford), and Ulf Hashagen (Paderborn). For details and pictures, please see http://ivihsm.cua.edu .

Planned a session to be chaired by Prof. Saunders Mac Lane (the University of Chicago) and Prof. Manfred Kronfellner (TU-Vienna) on “The Muse of History: Writing Biographies of Mathematical Scientists” for the Mathematical Association of America annual meeting in New Orleans, January 2001.

IX. Works in Progress

A.A Contextual History of Mathematics: Euler to Goedel (Prentice Hall)

B. "Leonhard Euler in Berlin, 1741 - 1766"

In the history of science, Euler's achievement during his twenty-five Berlin years is unparalleled. Drawing largely upon Euler’s 380 memoirs and books from this period, recently pub- lished correspondence with Frederick II, Alexis Clairaut, Jean d’Alembert, and members and officials of the St. Petersburg Academy in Series Quarta A of his Opera omnia, as well as the registers of the Berlin Academy, this study begins with Euler’s relations with Frederick II in building the new Berlin Academy and with Voltaire over scientific conflicts. It examines

9 his intellectual and organizational contributions to the Berlin Academy that made it a leading European institution, his work on a geometric form of the calculus of variations, infinitary analysis, number theory, probability, and analytic mechanics. It considers his pulse theory of optics, research in geometric optics, debates over lunar theory and what it indicated about Newtonian gravitational attraction, his criticism of the strictly rational Wolffian philosophers and freethinkers, his exchanges with Jean d’Alembert, and his support of the priority of Pierre Maupertuis for the principle of least action in the face of Leibniz-Wolffian challenges. This study is part of the preparations for writing a new, detailed, rounded biography of Euler.

X. Personal

Married (Betty) and two children (John and Anne)

Hobbies: Tae kwon do, bicycling

Name listed in the latest edition of Who’s Who In America.