Jeanne Peiffer

Jeanne Peiffer has made her career as a research scientist at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and was affiliated with the Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris, where she is still active as emerita. As a historian of mathematics, she focused on early modern mathematics, namely on Albrecht Dürer’s contributions to geometry and on Johann Bernoulli’s correspondence. She is part of an international network devoted to the study of the circulation of mathematics within and via journals. For more details, see http://koyre.ehess.fr/index.php?404