Ronald S Calinger

Ronald S Calinger received his doctorate in the history of science from the University of Chicago in 1971. He is professor of history emeritus at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He specializes in the history of mathematics and the mathematical sciences during the Enlightenment and the early nineteenth century. He has taught year-long courses on the history of mathematics, the history of science, and imperial Austria. He received the Austrian Cross, for the Sciences and...See more

Ronald S Calinger received his doctorate in the history of science from the University of Chicago in 1971. He is professor of history emeritus at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He specializes in the history of mathematics and the mathematical sciences during the Enlightenment and the early nineteenth century. He has taught year-long courses on the history of mathematics, the history of science, and imperial Austria. He received the Austrian Cross, for the Sciences and Arts, First Class, 1996. He was the Founding Chancellor of the Euler Society, 2003, a Dibner Library Resident Scholar, 2007 and 2010, and was invited to lecture on imperial Austria during the Mozart celebration by the Smithsonian Associates, 2006-7. He has written more than 70 research articles and reviews in such journals as Isis, Archive for History of Exact Sciences, Science, and Annals of Science. Among his eight books, he edited Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching (1996), and Classics of Mathematics (1999), and wrote A Contextual History of Mathematics: to Euler (1999), and Leonhard Euler: Mathematical Genius in the Enlightenment (2016). See less