D A V I D E . DUNNING Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford [email protected] Andrew Wiles Building +1 (610) 304-2833 Radcliffe Observatory Quarter davidedunning.com Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6GG United Kingdom ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 2020– Postdoctoral Research Associate, History of Mathematics research group, Mathematical Institute; affiliate, Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology. E DUCATION ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ P RINCETON UNIVERSITY 2020 PhD in History (Program in History of Science) Dissertation: “Writing the Rules of Reason: Notations in Mathematical Logic, 1847– 1937”; Committee: Michael Gordin (adviser), Katja Guenther, Benjamin Morison, Natasha Wheatley, Matthew Jones (external reader) 2016 MA in History of Science Major field: Modern Science and Mathematics (Michael Gordin) Minor fields: Modern European Intellectual History (Anson Rabinbach), Modern Europe (Philip Nord) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 2013 MPhil in History and Philosophy of Science, First Class with Distinction UNIVER SITY OF P ENNSYLVANIA 2012 BA in Mathematics and English, minor in Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude FELLOWSHIPS , HONORS , A N D A W A R D S ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2019–20 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship. 2019 Computer History Museum Travel Award, SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society. 2019 Library Resident Research Fellow, Leon and Joanne V.C. Knopoff Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 2019. 2017 Graduate Summer Funding, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. David E. Dunning 2 2014–19 Centennial Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, Princeton University. 2013 Jennifer Redhead Prize, Cambridge University. Best performance in the essay component of the History and Philosophy of Science MPhil. 2012–13 The Thouron Award, University of Pennsylvania. Full support for post-graduate study in the United Kingdom. 2012 Dean’s Scholar, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania. 2012 The Rittenberg Prize for Best Undergraduate Student in English, University of Pennsylvania. 2011 Phi Beta Kappa. PUBLICATION S ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BOOK MANUSCRIPT In preparation. Writing the Rules of Reason: Inscriptive Practice and the Rise of Mathematical Logic. P EER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS Under review. “Commonplace Coding: Logic, Inscriptive Practice, and the Work of Writing Programs.” For IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, special issue “Logic, Programming, and the Shaping of Computer Science,” eds. Liesbeth De Mol and Gerardo Con Diaz. Under review. “George Boole and the ‘Pure Analysis’ of the Syllogism.” For Aristotle’s Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic: Between Tradition and Innovation, 1820–1930, eds. Lukas M. Verburgt and Matteo Cosci. Under contract with Bloomsbury Academic. 2021 “The Logician in the Archive: John Venn’s Diagrams and Victorian Historical Thinking.” Forthcoming in Journal of the History of Ideas 82, no. 4 (2021). 2020 “‘Always Mixed Together’: Notation, Language, and the Pedagogy of Frege’s Begriffsschrift.” Modern Intellectual History 17, no. 4 (2020): 1099–131. DOI: 10.1017/S1479244318000410. 2018 “The Logic of the Nation: Nationalism, Formal Logic, and Interwar Poland.” Studia Historiae Scientiarum 17 (2018): 207–251. DOI: 10.4467/2543702XSHS.18.009.9329. 2015 “What Are Models For? Alexander Crum Brown’s Knitted Mathematical Surfaces.” The Mathematical Intelligencer 37, no. 2 (2015): 62–70. DOI: 10.1007/s00283-014-9480-2. WRITING FOR BROADER AUDIENCE S In preparation. “Logical Piano Lessons: Playing AI on Wires and Wood,” forthcoming post for the CHM Blog, Computer History Museum, https://computerhistory.org/blogs/. 2021 “Marriages, Couples, and the Making of Mathematical Careers,” with Brigitte Stenhouse, LMS Newsletter no. 493 (March 2021): 50–54. https://www.lms.ac.uk/sites/lms.ac.uk/ files/files/NLMS_493_for web.pdf. David E. Dunning 3 2019 “Emil Post’s Essentially Physical Logic,” post for the American Philosophical Society Blog, 15 November 2019, https://www.amphilsoc.org/blog/emil-posts-essentially-physical- logic. 2014 “Knitted Interpenetrating Surfaces,” Explore Whipple Collections, Whipple Museum of the History of Science, University of Cambridge, https://www.whipplemuseum.cam .ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/models/knitted-interpenetrating-surfaces. ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED 2021 “Marriages, Couples, and the Making of Mathematical Careers,” co-organized with Brigitte Stenhouse, sponsored by the London Mathematical Society and the British Society for the History of Mathematics, online event, 29–30 April 2021. 2015 Annual Joint Princeton-Harvard-MIT Workshop in the History of the Physical Sciences, co-organized with Connemara Doran and Claire Webb, Cambridge, MA, 18 April 2015. INV ITED PRESENTATIONS 2021 “Writing the Rules of Reason: Inscriptive Practice and the Rise of Mathematical Logic,” Séminaire Histoire et philosophie des mathématiques, “Nombres & Symboles” session (organized by G. Gastaldi and N. Michel), Université de Paris, Laboratoire SPHère, online event, 8 February 2021. 2021 “Writing the Rules of Reason: Inscriptive Practice and the Rise of Mathematical Logic,” Caltech Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, online event, 1 February 2021. 2021 “‘Essentially Physical’: Deduction, Writing, and the Reflexive Turn in Modern Logic,” Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Special Session on History of Mathematics, online event, 8–9 January 2021. 2020 “Emil Post and ‘the Science of our Science,’” Brown Bag lecture at the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 25 February 2020. 2020 “Notational Norms in Charles Sanders Peirce’s Circle of Logicians,” Joint Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America, Special Session on History of Mathematics, Denver, Colorado, 17 January 2020. CONFERENCE P ANELS ORGANIZED 2021 “Informal Formalization,” Joint British Society for the History of Mathematics and Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Conference, St Andrews, Scotland, 12–14 July 2021. 2019 “Rhetorics of Rigor,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 26 July 2019. David E. Dunning 4 CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP P APERS 2021 “‘Real Working Men’: Performing Gender in Nineteenth-Century Mathematical Logic,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, “Gender and Work in the Mathematical Sciences” panel (organized by Andrew Fiss), New Orleans, Louisiana, 18–21 November 2021. 2021 “Legacy and Collaboration in the Writings of George and Mary Everest Boole,” 26th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, “Collaborations and Rivalries in the History of Mathematics” symposium (organized by Reinhard Siegmund- Schultze), online event, 25–31 July 2021. 2021 “Formal Foolery: Symbolic Notations and Play in the History of Abstract Mathematics,” Joint British Society for the History of Mathematics and Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics Conference, “Informal Formalization” symposium (organized by David E. Dunning), online event, 13 July 2021. 2020 “L. Susan Stebbing and the Politics of Symbolic Logic,” TiLPS History of Analytic Philosophy Workshop, Tilburg Center for Logic, Ethics and Philosophy of Science, Tilburg University, online event, 15 December 2020. 2020 “Writing the Rules of Reason: Inscriptive Practice and the Rise of Mathematical Logic,” Oxford's Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology Seminar, University of Oxford, online event, 19 October 2020. 2020 "The Embodied Anti-Psychologism of Principia Mathematica," British Society for the History of Science Annual Conference, 8–11 July 2020. *Cancelled due to COVID-19. 2020 “From Social Exchange to Monumental Proof: Changing Symbolic Practices in Fin-de- Siècle Mathematics and Logic,” International Society for Intellectual History, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 27–29 May 2020. *Cancelled due to COVID-19. 2020 “The Logician in the Archive: John Venn's Diagrams and Victorian Biographical History,” Science Studies Working Group, Columbia University, online event, 20 April 2020. 2020 “Emil Post and ‘the Science of our Science,’” History of Science Program Seminar, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, 17 February 2020. 2019 “Notational Norms in Charles Sanders Peirce’s Circle of Logicians,” Novembertagung on the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Strasbourg, France, 31 October 2019. 2019 “Canonizing Failure: Turing Machines and the Narrative Coupling of Logic and Computing,” SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society, Milan, Italy,