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Craig Fraser

Craig Fraser
Emeritus Professor
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Victoria College
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7 CANADA

Ph: 647-519-6650
Email: craig dot fraser at utoronto dot ca

Research Interests

History of mathematics and mechanics; analysis from 1700, in particular the calculus of variations; foundations of mathematics; Leonhard Euler, Jean d'Alembert, Joseph Louis Lagrange, Augustin Cauchy, William Rowan Hamilton, Carl Gustav Jacobi, Adolph Mayer, Karl Weierstrass, Henri Poincaré. Classification of mathematical knowledge, LC, MSC. Modern cosmology, interactions of theoretical and observational cosmology 1900-1965.