Mary G. Croarken is a British independent scholar and author in the history of mathematics and the history of computing.

Education and career

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Croarken earned a degree in computer science from the University of Warwick in 1982 and a doctorate in the history of science there in 1986,[1][2] supervised by Martin Campbell-Kelly, who describes her as one of his two most successful students.[3]

After leaving academia to raise a family in Norwich,[2][3] she became a health research manager in the National Health Service,[3][4] while continuing to work in the history of science as an independent scholar. She has been a research fellow at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich and in the computer science department at the University of Warwick.[1]

Books

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Croarken is the author of the book Early Scientific Computing in Britain (Clarendon Press, 1990).[5] She is a co-editor of The History of Mathematical Tables: from Sumer to Spreadsheets (Oxford University Press, 2003)[6] and of Mathematics at the Meridian: The History of Mathematics at Greenwich (Chapman & Hall / CRC, 2020)[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mary Croarken", IEEE Xplore, retrieved 2023-01-17
  2. ^ a b Reviewer biography, Reviews, Peggy Kidwell, ed., IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (2): 77, 1996.
  3. ^ a b c Aspray, William (19 January 2021), Oral history interview with Martin Campbell-Kelly, Charles Babbage Institute, hdl:11299/225078; see pp. 14–15
  4. ^ Croarken, Mary, German National Library, retrieved 2023-01-17
  5. ^ Reviews of Early Scientific Computing in Britain:
  6. ^ Reviews of The History of Mathematical Tables:
  7. ^ Reviews of Mathematics at the Meridian: