Judith V. Field

Judith Veronica Field (born 1943) is a British historian of science with interests in mathematics and the impact of science in art, an honorary visiting research fellow in the Department of History of Art of Birkbeck, University of London,[1] former president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics,[2] and president of the Leonardo da Vinci Society.[3]

Education and career

Field earned a Ph.D. in 1981 at Imperial College of the University of London; her dissertation, Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology,[4] was supervised by Alfred Rupert Hall,[5] and later became one of her books.[6]

She was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics for 1997–1999.[2] She became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1988, and a full member in 1998.[7]

Books

Field is the author of books including:

  • The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues (with J. J. Gray, Springer, 1987)[8]
  • Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology (Athlone Press, 1988; Bloomsbury, 2013)[6]
  • The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance (Oxford University Press and Princeton University Press, 1997)[9]
  • Science in Art: Works in the National Gallery That Illustrate the History of Science and Technology (with Frank A. J. L. James, British Society for the History of Science, 1997)[10]
  • Piero Della Francesca: A Mathematician's Art (Yale University Press, 2005)[11]

She is the co-editor of:

  • Renaissance and Revolution: Humanists, Scholars, Craftsmen and Natural Philosophers in Early Modern Europe (with Frank A. J. L. James, Cambridge University Press, 1993)[12]
  • Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park: An edition of I.J. Good, D. Michie and G. Timms: General Report on Tunny with Emphasis on Statistical Methods (I. J. Good, D. Michie, and G. Timms (1945), edited by J. Reeds, W. Diffie, and J.V. Field, IEEE and Wiley, 2015)[13]

She is also the translator from French into English of:

  • Mathematics and Mathematicians (P. Dedron and J. Itard, two vols., Transworld, 1974 and Open University Press, 1978).[14]

References
  1. "Field, J. V.", Encyclopedia.com, Cengage, retrieved 2020-09-03
  2. History of the BSHM, British Society for the History of Mathematics, retrieved 2020-09-03
  3. Leonardo da Vinci Society, Birkbeck, University of London, retrieved 2020-11-30
  4. Judith V. Field at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Professor Alfred Rupert Hall and Dr Marie Boas Hall" (PDF), Obituaries, Reporter, Imperial College London, no. 204, p. 14, 30 April 2009
  6. Reviews of Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology:
  7. J. V. Field, International Academy of the History of Science, retrieved 2020-09-12
  8. Reviews of The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues:
  9. Reviews of The Invention of Infinity:
  10. Reviews of Science in Art:
  11. Reviews of Piero Della Francesca:
  12. Reviews of Renaissance and Revolution:
  13. Review of Breaking Teleprinter Ciphers at Bletchley Park:
  14. Reviews of Mathematics and Mathematicians:
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