Mary Croarken

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

Education and career

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

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

1. "Mary Croarken", IEEE Xplore, retrieved 2023-01-17
2. Reviewer biography, Reviews, Peggy Kidwell, ed., IEEE Annals of the History of Computing 18 (2): 77, 1996.
3. 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:
   • Hartley, M. G. (April 1991), The International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education, 28 (2): 120, doi:10.1177/002072099102800205, S2CID 114785957{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • I.N.Lushchakova, zbMATH, Zbl 0732.01027{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Mahoney, Michael S. (March 1992), Isis, 83 (1): 167–168, doi:10.1086/356091, JSTOR 234059{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Tweedale, Geoffrey (May 1990), "Essential link", Nature, 345 (6272): 218, Bibcode:1990Natur.345..218T, doi:10.1038/345218a0, S2CID 4349639
6. Reviews of The History of Mathematical Tables:
   • Campbell, Paul J. (April 2004), Mathematics Magazine, 77 (2): 163, doi:10.1080/0025570X.2004.11953245, JSTOR 3219109, S2CID 218541218{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Gouvêa, Fernando Q. (May 2004), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
   • Gray, Jeremy (September 2004), "Table mountain", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, 58 (3): 311–312, JSTOR 4142071
   • Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich (July 2004), Technology and Culture, 45 (3): 662–664, doi:10.1353/tech.2004.0136, JSTOR 40060668, S2CID 62573064{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Zabell, S. L. (June 2005), "Review of The History of Mathematical Tables", Isis, 96 (2): 258, doi:10.1086/491481, JSTOR 10.1086/491481
7. Reviews of Mathematics at the Meridian:
   • Crilly, Tony (February 2022), The Mathematical Gazette, 106 (565): 170–172, doi:10.1017/mag.2022.41, S2CID 247120931{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
   • Melville, Duncan J. (May 2020), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America