Michael Sean Mahoney
American scientist
Intro | American scientist | |
Places | United States of America | |
was | Historian Mathematician Historian of mathematics Educator | |
Work field | Academia Mathematics Social science | |
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Birth | 30 June 1939, New York City | |
Death | 23 July 2008 (aged 69 years) |
Michael Sean Mahoney (June 30, 1939 – July 23, 2008) was a historian of science.
Mahoney was born in New York City, and did his undergraduate studies at Harvard University, graduating in 1960. He earned a Ph.D. in history and history of science from Princeton University in 1967, and immediately took a position as an assistant professor there. He remained at Princeton for over 40 years, until his death in 2008.
A conference on the history of science and technology was held in his honor at Princeton in May 2009.
Mahoney's biography of Pierre de Fermat received much critical attention including a scathing review by André Weil in 1973. A second edition of Mahoney's book came out in 1994.