Knorr, Wilbur Richard, 1945-

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Name (Latin)
Knorr, Wilbur Richard, 1945-
Other forms of name
Knorr, Wilbur, 1945-
Date of birth
1945-08-29
Date of death
1997-03-18
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
Ph. D., Harvard, 1973
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 108706418
Wikidata: Q2570170
Library of congress: n 83005956
Sources of Information
  • His The evolution of the Euclidean elements, 1975.
  • His The ancient tradition of geometric problems, 1983:CIP t.p., v. 1 (Wilbur Knorr) galley (Stanford Univ.)
  • Archimedes, c1999:p. 6 (Wilbur R. Knorr; d. 1997)
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Wikipedia description:

Wilbur Richard Knorr (August 29, 1945 – March 18, 1997) was an American historian of mathematics and a professor in the departments of philosophy and classics at Stanford University. He has been called "one of the most profound and certainly the most provocative historian of Greek mathematics" of the 20th century.

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