In the 1970s, Arianrhod left her honours program in mathematics to join a radical counterculture community, without electricity, running water, or communications.[1] She returned to school, and earned a doctorate in general relativity from Monash University. She remains affiliated with Monash University as an honorary research associate in the mathematical sciences.[2]
Books
Arianrhod's first book, Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics (University of Queensland Press and Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN9780702234088, ISBN978-0-19-530890-7, ISBN978-0-19-518370-2)[3] has little to do with Albert Einstein himself.[4] The titular heroes are James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and Isaac Newton, whose portraits Einstein kept. Although the book is broad-ranging in its outline of the development of physics, its central narrative is Maxwell's development of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism.[5] A broader goal of the book is to communicate the beauty of mathematics and the way that mathematical language has become central to modern physics.[6]
Seduced by Logic: Émilie du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012; ISBN978-0-19-993161-3) describes and compares the accomplishments and lives of two women of mathematics separated by a century, Émilie du Châtelet in 18th-century France, and Mary Somerville in 19th-century England.[7] Both women are best known for their popularization of the works of others, Newton's Principia for Du Châtelet and Pierre-Simon Laplace's Traité de mécanique céleste for Somerville,[8] but they had many other accomplishments, and the book keeps their scientific work in the foreground.[9]
Lamprecht, Elizabeth (2016年1月)、「数学の魅力」、Journal of Humanistic Mathematics、6 (1): 277–284、doi : 10.5642/jhummath.201601.18
Opitz, Donald L. (2016年5月), BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics , 31 (2): 156–158 , doi : 10.1080/17498430.2016.1170358 , S2CID 124591925{{citation}}: CS1 maint: 無題の定期刊行物 (リンク)