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 Professor Shank continues a series of discussions of the issues surrounding the invention of the calculus.
The interview can be downloaded as a video podcast (128.1 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 52.9 MB).
The interview can also be downloaded as a video podcast (128.7 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 53.6 MB).