Clemency Montelle (born 8 July 1977)[1] is a New Zealand historian of mathematics known for her research on Indian mathematics and Indian astronomy.[2][3] She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Canterbury,[1][4] and a fellow of the New Zealand India Research Institute of the Victoria University of Wellington.[5]
Montelle is originally from Christchurch.[2] She earned first class honours in mathematics and classical studies at the University of Canterbury in 1999, and completed a master's degree there in 2000.[1] It was not until the fourth year of her studies that, finding a copy of Euclid in the original Greek, she realized that she could reconcile her two interests by working in the history of mathematics.[2][3]
She became a Fulbright Scholar at Brown University, where she learned Cuneiform, Sanskrit, and Arabic.[3][6] She completed a Ph.D. in the history of mathematics there in 2005;[1] at Brown, her faculty mentors included David Pingree, Alice Slotsky, and Kim Plofker.[7]
Montelle was vice president of the Commission for the History of Ancient and Medieval Astronomy for the 2017–2021 term.[8]
Montelle is the author of the book Chasing Shadows: Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early Reckoning of Eclipse theory (Johns Hopkins Press, 2011).[9] With Kim Plofker, she is the coauthor of Sanskrit Astronomical Tables (Springer, 2019).[10]
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