Netz’s main field is the history of pre-modern mathematics. His research involves the wider issues of the history of cognitive practices, e.g. visual culture, the history of the book, and literacy and numeracy. His recent books from Cambridge University Press include The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: a Study in Cognitive History (1999) and The Transformation of Early Mediterranean Mathematics: from Problems to Equations (in press).

Related to his research in cognitive history is his interest in ecological history, and he is about to publish Flesh and Iron: Barbed Wire and the Ecology of Modernity (Wesleyan University Press, in press). His next major book projects are Systems and Symbols: Mathematics of the Mediterranean Codex and An Essay on Cognitive History.

Reviel Netz

Associate Professor of Classics
Associate Professor of Philosophy, by courtesy

PhD Cambridge 1995