Dr David E Dunning
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Mathematical Institute
I am a historian of science, technology, and mathematics in modern Europe. In my research I aim to understand the role math plays in various forms of epistemic and cultural authority. My current book project, which draws on my dissertation “Writing the Rules of Reason: Notations in Mathematical Logic, 1847–1937,” illuminates how logic became a mathematical science. I focus on the changing practices of writing that logicians used to capture their theories on paper, with an eye to the ways their symbolic techniques shaped later efforts to mechanize computation and reasoning. I defended my dissertation in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University in May 2020. You can read more about my work at https://www.davidedunning.com/
Research Interests
- History of mathematics
- History of logic
- History of computing
