Reviel Netz

Reviel Netz
Born	(1968-01-02)2 January 1968 Tel Aviv, Israel
Alma mater	Tel Aviv University
Scientific career
Fields	Philologist, Historian, Philosopher
Institutions	Stanford University

Reviel Netz (born January 2, 1968, in Tel Aviv, Israel) is a noted Israeli scholar of the history of pre-modern mathematics, who is currently a professor of Classics and of Philosophy at Stanford University.

Life and work

Born January 2nd, 1968 to Israeli noted author Corinna Hasofferett קורינה הסופרת and Yoel Netz, entrepreneur and translator of Russian classics, Reviel Netz was from early childhood recognized as a precocious child. His mother recalls him at the age of five bent for hours over a National Geographic map. When asked , "What do you see there?" he says most seriously, "I'm imagining the Napoleon battles."

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University, obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied classics at Christ College, Cambridge University, where he obtained his doctorate in 1995. From 1996 to 1999 Netz worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, and concurrently in 1998 and 1999 worked as a post-doctoral fellow at MIT. In the fall of 1999 he took a position as an assistant professor in the Stanford University Department of Classics, where he has continued to teach and publish today. Netz's major research interest include the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices; for example the history of the book, visual culture, literacy and numeracy. He has several prominent publications in this field, most notably volumes I and II of The Archimedes Palimpsest. He also co-authored The Archimedes Codex with William Noel on the same subject matter but oriented towards a public audience. It received the Neumann Prize and has since been translated into twenty languages. He is the author of several additional works published by the Cambridge University Press, including The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999, Runciman Award), The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: From Problems to Equations (2004), and Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic (2009). He has also appeared as a subject matter expert on PBS's Nova concerning ancient mathematics. In addition to his work on the history of mathematics, Reviel Netz has published award winning Hebrew Poetry, most notably 'Adayin Bahuc', published in 1999.

Authored and co-authored works

• The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. I: Catalogue and Commentary (with W. Noel et al.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01457-2
• The Archimedes Palimpsest Vol. II: Facsimile and Transcription (with W. Noel et al.), Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-107-01684-2
• Ludic Proof: Greek Mathematics and the Alexandrian Aesthetic, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, ISBN 978-0-521-89894-2
• The Archimedes Codex: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Greatest Palimpsest (co-authored with William Noel), London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, ISBN 978-0-306-81737-3
• Archimedes: Translation and Commentary, with a Critical Edition of the Diagrams and a Translation of Eutocius' commentaries, Vol. I: The Sphere and the Cylinder, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Barbwire: an Ecology of Modernity, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8195-6959-2
• The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-521-54120-6

See also

• Archimedes Palimpsest
• Academic Profile of Reviel Netz
• Curriculum Vitae of Reviel Netz
• 'Scholars decode ancient text, shake up pre-calculus'
• PBS Nova: Working with Infinity
• 'Leaping out of the Page, The use of Diagram in Greek Mathematics' The British Academy
• The Archimedes Codex – Professor Reviel Netz, Gresham College
• Expansion, Confrontation, Containment: An Interview with Reviel Netz
• The Netz-work of Greek deduction