Henrik Kragh's preprints and publications

An updated and formatted list of publications can also be downloaded in PDF format: Publications, including reviews.

Reviews of (some of) my papers may be found at ZentralBlatt MATH (Reviews), ZentralBlatt MATH (papers), or MathSciNet (Both require personal or institutional access).

Abel's mathematics and mathematics of the early 19th century

Sørensen, H. K. (2009). Representations as means and ends: Representability and habituation in mathematical analysis during the first part of the nineteenth century. In B. Van Kerkhove, ed., New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics, pp. 114-137. World Scientific, New Jersey etc.

Sørensen, H. K. (2007). Abel, Niels Henrik. In N. Koertge, ed., New Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 1, pp. 5-8. Thomson Gale, Detroit etc.

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Louis Olivier: A mathematician only known through his publications in Crelle's Journal during the 1820s. Centaurus 38(3): 201-231. DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1600-0498.2006.00046.x.

Sørensen, H. K. (2005). Exceptions and counterexamples: Understanding Abel's comment on Cauchy's Theorem. Historia Mathematica 32(4): 453-480. DOI: doi:10.1016/j.hm.2004.11.010.

Sørensen, H. K. (2002, May). The Mathematics of Niels Henrik Abel - Continuation and New Approaches in Mathematics During the 1820s. PhD-dissertation, History of Science Department, University of Aarhus.

Sørensen, H. K. (2002). Abel and his mathematics in contexts. NTM: International Journal of History and Ethics of Natural Sciences, Technology and Medicine 10, 137-155. DOI: doi:10.1007/BF03033109.

Scandinavian research traditions around 1900

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). En udstrakt broderlig hånd: Skandinaviske matematikerkongresser indtil slutningen af 1. verdenskrig. Normat 54(1-2), 1-17, 49-60.

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Niels Henrik Abel's professional and political legacy in Norway. In R. Siegmund-Schultze and H. K. Sørensen, editors, Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century, 197-219. Novus Forlag, Oslo, 2006.

Siegmund-Schultze, R. and Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Introduction. In R. Siegmund-Schultze and H. K. Sørensen, editors, Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century, 11-18. Novus Forlag, Oslo, 2006.

Mathematics in Denmark / DVH 1800-1950

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Matematik og statistik. I P. C. Kjærgaard (red.), Lys over Landet, 1850-1920, Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie, bind 3, kapitel 7, 193-216. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Århus, ISBN 87-7934-170-5.

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Matematik, statistik og datalogi. I H. Nielsen og K. H. Nielsen (red.), Viden uden grænser, 1920-1970, Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie, bind 4, kapitel 6, 105-124. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Århus, ISBN 87-7934-171-3.

Sørensen, H. K. (2005). Eksakte videnskaber - mere eller mindre: De matematiske videnskaber. I H. Kragh (red.), Natur, Nytte og Ånd, 1730-1850, Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie, bind 2, kapitel 9, 293-301. Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Århus, ISBN 87-7934-168-3.

Sørensen, H. K. (2005). Matematik i det offentlige satiriske rum for hundrede år siden. Matilde: Nyhedsbrev for Dansk Matematisk Forening, 25, 17-23,25,32.

Sørensen, H. K. (2003). Fra mørsere og muddermaskiner til "Den Mægtige": Videnskabernes Selskabs prisopgaver i matematik 1768-1866. Matilde: Nyhedsbrev for Dansk Matematisk Forening, 15, 22-26.

Sørensen, H. K. (2003). Professionalisation & Internationalisation of Danish Mathematics 1850-1920. Poster presented at the Nordic Post-Graduate Workshop in History of Science and Technology, Bjerringbro May 1 to 4, 2003.

Book reviews

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Tent, M.B.W.: The prince of mathematics. Carl Friedrich Gauss. Wellesley, MA: A K Peters. xviii, 245 p. $27.95 (2006). ISBN 1-56881-261-2/hbk. Zentralblatt MATH (ZBL 1098.01009).

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Schubring, Gert: Conflicts between generalization, rigor and intuition. Number concepts underlying the development of analysis in 17th-19th century France and Germany. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York, NY: Springer. xiv, 678 p. EUR 119.95; sFr. 203.00; £92.50; $129.00 (2005). Zentralblatt MATH (ZBL 1086.01001).

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Houzel, Christian: The work of Niels Henrik Abel, in Laudal, Olav Arnfinn (ed.) et al., The legacy of Niels Henrik Abel. Papers from the Abel bicentennial conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, June 3-8, 2002. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43826-2/hbk). 21-177 (2004). Zentralblatt MATH (ZBL 1077.01013).

Sørensen, H. K. (2006). Olav Arnfinn Laudal and Ragni Piene (eds.), The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel (Berlin: Springer, 2004). 784 pp. hc. €79.95. ISBN 3-540-43826-2. Centaurus 48(1), 66-67.

Sørensen, H. K. (2005). Bodil Branner and Jesper Lützen (eds.), Caspar Wessel: On the Analytical Representation of Direction; and Jesper Lützen (ed.), Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers. (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999 and 2001). 143 and 293 pp. pb. {ISBN} 87-7876-158-1 and 87-7876-236-7. Centaurus 47(1), 73-74.

Sørensen, H. K. (2004). C. C. Heyde and Eugene Seneta (eds.), Statisticians of the Centuries (Heidelberg: Springer, 2001). 500 pp. pb. ISBN 0-387-95283-7. Centaurus 46(2), 175-176.

Nielsen, A. K. and Sørensen, H. K. (2001). Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze, Rockefeller and the Internationalization of Mathematics between the Two World Wars: Documents and Studies for the Social History of Mathematics in the 20th Century (Basel et al.: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2001). 341 pp. hc. ISBN 3-7643-6468-8. Centaurus 44(3-4), 189-190.

Abel research: Preprints

Sørensen, H. K. (1999a, November). Matematikken i starten af 1800-tallet. Niels Henrik Abel i en matematisk brydningstid [Mathematics in the Early 19th century: Niels Henrik Abel in a time of mathematical fermentation, in Danish]. Progress-rapport, Institut for Videnskabshistorie, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus.

Sørensen, H. K. (1999b, November). Niels Henrik Abel and the theory of equations. Appendix of progress report, Institut for Videnskabshistorie, Aarhus Universitet, Aarhus.

Miscellaneous

Sørensen, H. K. (2001). Noter til Euklid og Platon om de regulære polyedre [Notes concerning Euclid and Plato on regular polyhedra, in Danish].

Sørensen, H. K. (1996). Kædelinjen [The Catenary, in Danish]. Afløsningsopgave i kurset Matematikken i 1600-tallet.

Sørensen, H. K. (1995). Elementær kompleks funktionsteori hos Weierstrass. Et studie i resultater og metode [Elementary complex function theory in Weierstrass. A study of results and methods, in Danish]. Afløsningsopgave i kurset De uendelige rækkers historie.