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Karen Parshall

Commonwealth Professor Emerita of History and Mathematics

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  • Before I retired in May of 2023, I was somewhat of a rarity on the faculty at the University of Virginia–a native Virginian. See my brief biography below to find out more.
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Recent Publications

  • J. R. Kline: An Unsung Hero of the First U.S.-Hosted International Congress of Mathematicians (1950)
  • Historical Contours of the Life and Work of Oswald Veblen
  • The American Mathematical Society and Applied Mathematics from the 1920s to the 1950s: A Revisionist Account
  • Toward a History of American Mathematics
  • Journals in the Evolution of a National Research Community: The Case of Mathematics in the United States (1776-1940) in Circulations mathematiques dans et par les journaux, ed. Helene Gispert, Jeanne Peiffer, and Philippe Nabonnand
  • The Bedrock of Logical Thought: Mathematics on the Television in 1957
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