Dr Deborah Kent

Senior Lecturer in History of Mathematics

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 3739

Email

dk89@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

PhD supervision

• Kate Hindle

Selected publications

• Review: Symbols and things: material mathematics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Kevin Lambert

  Kent, D., 25 May 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Mathematical Intelligencer. Online First, 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review

• Open access

  Shooting for the moon: Benjamin Peirce’s ambitious 19^th-century efforts to elevate American mathematics through astronomy

  Kent, D. A., 3 Jul 2025, In: The American Mathematical Monthly. 132, 6, p. 541-553 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Towards a global history of the 1860 total solar eclipse

  Kent, D., Garrison, J., Briers, M., Chinnici, I., Soulu, F. & Belteki, D., 30 Jun 2025, In: HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology . 19, 1, p. 8-38 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  A source list to support DEI/EDI work in mathematical sciences

  Kent, D., Aebischer, E. & Neave, S., 1 Mar 2024, In: Notices of the American Mathematical Society. 71, 3, p. 355-359

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  Eclipsed by history: underrecognized contributions to early british solar eclipse expeditions

  Beckles, J. & Kent, D., 24 May 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Notes and Records of the Royal Society. Ahead of Print, 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Mathématiques pratiques et éloquence latine: De arte supputandi (1522), premier livre de mathématiques imprimé en Angleterre

  Kent, D., Reed, A., Morel, T. (Editor) & Preveraud, T. (Editor), 11 Sept 2023, Images des Mathématiques, 1, p. 177-193 17 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Molluscs and mathematics: the collaboration of Ronald Winckworth and D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson

  Kent, D., Jul 2023, Mollusc World, 62, p. 32-33 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Chasing change: the lasting legacy of India's 1871 eclipse

  Briers, M., Billina, M. & Kent, D., 1 Feb 2022, In: Astronomy & Geophysics. 63, 1, p. 1.24-1.29 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

• Open access

  Einstein, Eddington, e o/and the eclipse: impressões de viagem/travel impressions

  Kent, D., 12 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: British Journal for the History of Mathematics. Latest Articles, 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Open access

  The bicentennial of the Royal Astronomical Society

  Kent, D., 19 Dec 2022, Physics Today.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

 

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