David Fowler (mathematician)

David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis). He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock.

Fowler was also the translator of René Thom's book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis from French (Stabilité strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.

References

• Obituary in The Guardian, 3 May 2004 by Christopher Zeeman.
• Obituary in The Independent, 24 May 2004.

External links

• Bibliography
• Book Review by Fernando Q. Gouvêa of The Mathematics of Plato's Academy
• Memorial symposium organized in his honor at Warwick, 9 November 2004.