Jan Hogendijk Explained

Jan Hogendijk
Birth Date:	21 July 1955
Birth Place:	Leeuwarden, Friesland
Nationality:	Dutch
Fields:	Mathematics
Workplaces:	University of Utrecht Leiden University University of Heidelberg
Alma Mater:	University of Utrecht
Doctoral Advisor:	Fred van der Blij Gerald J. Toomer
Awards:	Otto Neugebauer Prize (2012)

Jan Pieter Hogendijk (born 21 July 1955) is a Dutch mathematician and historian of science. Since 2005, he is professor of history of mathematics at the University of Utrecht.

Hogendijk became a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010.^[1]

Hogendijk has contributed to the study of Greek mathematics and mathematics in medieval Islam; he provides a list of Sources on his website (below). In 2012, he was awarded the inaugural Otto Neugebauer Prize for History of Mathematics, by the European Mathematical Society, "for having illuminated how Greek mathematics was absorbed in the medieval Arabic world, how mathematics developed in medieval Islam, and how it was eventually transmitted to Europe."^[2]

A bibliography of Hogendijk's publications is included in his website.

Selected works

• Hogendijk . Jan P. . Arabic traces of lost works of Apollonius . . Springer Science and Business Media LLC . 35 . 3 . 1986 . 0003-9519 . 10.1007/bf00357307 . 187–253. 121613986 .
• Hogendijk . Jan P . Observations on the icosahedron in Euclid's Elements . . Elsevier BV . 14 . 2 . 1987 . 0315-0860 . 10.1016/0315-0860(87)90022-x . 175–177. 123141534 . free .
• Hogendijk . Jan P . Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ṫūsī on the number of positive roots of cubic equations . . Elsevier BV . 16 . 1 . 1989 . 0315-0860 . 10.1016/0315-0860(89)90099-2 . 69–85. free .
• Hogendijk . Jan P. . Desargues' Brouillon Project and the Conics of Apollonius . . Brepols Publishers NV . 34 . 1 . 1991 . 0008-8994 . 10.1111/j.1600-0498.1991.tb00687.x . 1–43. 1991Cent...34....1H .
• 1994: "B.L. van der Waerden's detective work in ancient and medieval mathematical astronomy", Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde Vierde Serie 12(3): 145–58.
• Book: Hogendijk, Jan P. . . Mathematics in Medieval Islamic Spain . Birkhäuser Basel . Basel . 1995 . 1568–1580 . 978-3-0348-9897-3 . 10.1007/978-3-0348-9078-6_154.
• 2008: "The Introduction to Geometry by Qusta ibn Luqa: translation and commentary", Suhayl 8: 163–221.

External links

• Personal website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Jan Hogendijk . https://web.archive.org/web/20160131212315/https://www.knaw.nl/en/members/members/11070 . Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . 31 January 2016 . 31 January 2016.
2. http://www.6ecm.pl/en EMS Prizes 2012