Niccolò Guicciardini
Italian historian of mathematics
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Niccolò Guicciardini Corsi Salviati (born 28 May 1957 in Florence) is an Italian historian of mathematics. He is a professor at the University of Milan, and is known for his studies on the works of Isaac Newton.[1]
Guicciardini obtained his Ph.D. from Middlesex Polytechnic in 1987 under the supervision of Ivor Grattan-Guinness.[2]
In 2011 he was awarded the Fernando Gil International Prize for the Philosophy of Science.[3]
Selected publications
- The development of Newtonian calculus in Britain, 1700-1800, Cambridge University Press, 1989 (paperback 2003).
- Reading the Principia: the debate on Newton's mathematical methods for natural philosophy from 1687 to 1736, Cambridge University Press, 1999 (paperback 2003).
- Isaac Newton on mathematical certainty and method, MIT Press, 2009 (paperback 2011).[4]