Benjamin Wardhaugh
BA, MA, MMus, DPhil
Quondam Fellow since 2012
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Background
- Doctoral student, Hertford College, Oxford (from 2003 to 2007)
- Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London (from 2002 to 2003)
- Research Assistant, NRICH (Mathematics Education) project, University of Cambridge (online dictionary of mathematics for schoolchildren) (from 2000 to 2002)
- Undergraduate, Trinity College, University of Cambridge (from 1997 to 2000)
Research interests
- Uses of mathematics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England
- Doctoral work focuses on mathematical theories of music from that period
Selected publications
- Thomas Salmon: Writings on Music (2 vols. forthcoming)
- How to Read Historical Mathematics (Princeton, 2009)
- (co-ed. with Christopher Field), John Birchensha: Writings on Music (Ashgate, 2009)
- Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705 (Ashgate, 2008)
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Teaching and supervision
- ‘History of Mathematics’ (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford): class series on mathematics 1650-1900, on Newton’s Principia, and on the development of the binomial theorem, lectures on Newton and Descartes
- General History III ‘1400-1650: Renaissance, Recovery and Reform’ (History Faculty, University of Oxford): lecture on the impact of print
- ‘Cultures and practices of mathematics in the Early Modern period’, advanced paper for the Oxford MSc and MPhil in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Other professional memberships and roles
- Member of Advisory Board and Steering Committee for the John Wallis Project (from 2008)
- Reviews editor for the Bulletin of the BSHM (from 2008)
- Secretary, British Society for History of Mathematics (from 2007 to 2008)
- Member of Editorial Board for the Bulletin of the BSHM (from 2006)