Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. The focus of my research concerns the complex relations between the history of philosophy and the history of science. I am especially interested in the history of the concept of space in connection with the development of geometry and related sciences. My foremost contribution to the topic is my book Geometry and Monadology, in which I attempt a new interpretation of Leibniz’s metaphysics in the light of his geometrical writings on the analysis situs, and also to articulate his contribution to the birth of modern geometry. I am currently working to a book project that describes the surfacing of a geometry of space from classical geometry. In connection with this project, I have also worked extensively on the rise of non-Euclidean geometries.
I am also very interested in Kant's philosophy of mathematics in connection with the developments of 18th-century geometry in Germany, and I am writing several papers on these issues.
DOC HISTO. CHSPAM. IHPST. What Makes Modern Mathematics Different from Classical Mathematics? Biblio SHS. REHSEIS.