Kevin  Lambert, Ph. D

Biography

I am a historian of science and mathematics in the early modern and modern periods.  My recent book, Symbols and Things: Material Mathematics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries explores mathematics as a way of thinking outside the body and through the material environment. I also recently published a chapter in the volume, Algorithmic Modernity that traces the genealogy of algorithmic practices. I am now working on the problem of writing longue durée histories of science. I am close to completing a paper called "Malthus in the Landscape," that investigates the temporalities of global histories. I am also exploring the problem of writing a global history of the early modern sciences without the prism of the so called "Scientific Revolution."