J.B. Shank
J.B. Shank is a professor of history at the University of MInnesota , one of the organizers of the IAS sponsored Theorizing Early Modern Studies Collaborative and a residential fellow at the Institute during the fall of 2007. His recent publications include Before Voltaire: Newton, "Newtonianism," and the Beginning of the Enlightenment in France (University of Chicago Press, Author, 2005) and "Fontenelle's Calculus: The Cultural Politics of Mathematics in Louis XIV’s France," in David Glimp and Michelle Warren eds, Arts of Calculation: Numerical Thought in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave/McMillan, Author, 2004). His full vita can be found through the history department.
Here he talks about the the disputes between Leibniz and Newton and the origins of calculus in the sixteenth century.
The interview can be downloaded as a video podcast (127.1 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 49.3 MB).
In a more recent interview, Shank speaks more generally about the early modern response to ancient ideas about mathematics.
The interview can also be downloaded as a video podcast (132.2 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 54.1 MB).