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.
DOC HISTO. CHSPAM. IHPST. What Makes Modern Mathematics Different from Classical Mathematics? Biblio SHS. REHSEIS.