David Fowler (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Fowler (mathematician)

British mathematician

Date of Birth: 28-Apr-1937

Place of Birth: Blackburn, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Apr-2004

Profession: mathematician, historian of mathematics

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

David Herbert Fowler (28 April 1937 – 13 April 2004) was a historian of Greek mathematics who published work on pre-Eudoxian ratio theory (using the process he called anthyphairesis).
He disputed the standard story of Greek mathematical discovery, in which the discovery of the phenomenon of incommensurability came as a shock. Fowler was also the translator of René Thom's book Structural Stability and Morphogenesis from French (Stabilité strukturelle et morphogénèse) into English.