Renate Tobies Author

Renate Tobies is a historian of mathematics and science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (Germany). After completing her academic degrees at the University of Leipzig, she served as the managing editor of NTM: Journal for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine for twenty years. She was a visiting professor at the University of Kaiserslautern and an interim professor of the history of science and technology at the University of Stuttgart. Throughout her career, she has held additional visiting professorships in Braunschweig, Saarbrücken, Jena, Linz, and Graz. Her main research fields are the history of mathematics and its applications, and women in mathematics, science, and technology. She has published more than ten books and hundreds of articles. She is a full member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (Paris) and a foreign member of the Agder Academy of Sciences and Letters (Kristiansand, Norway).