Davide CRIPPA

Personal Information

Date of birth: 11 January, 1981.

Birthplace: Vimercate (Milan) ITALY.

Nationality: Italian.

Email: davide.crippa@gmail.com

Positions held

2/02/2022- 01/02/2024 - Marie Curie Fellow, Ca’ Foscari University, VENICE.

01/04/2021 - current – Research associate (vedoucí vědecký pracovník), Institute of Philosophy (Czech Academy of Sciences), Prague, CZ.

01/04/2019-31/12/2021-Principal Investigator of the GACR – Junior project: “Mathematics in the Czech lands, from the Jesuit teaching to Bernard Bolzano” (until 2021). The project includes two postdoctoral researchers, dr. Jan Makovsky and dr. Elias Fuentes Guillen. The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.

2018 - Postdoc at Université Paris Diderot, laboratoire SPHERE, supervisor: David Rabouin.

2016 DAAD short research grant, Leibniz Bibliothek Hannover, under the supervision of dr. Siegmund Probst and prof. Michael Kempe, for a project on the study of Leibniz’s mathematical manuscripts (3 months, April-June 2016).

2016-2018 Post-doc at the Czech Academy of Sciences, Department of Philosophy, Centre for Science, Technology and Society Studies, Prague (2 years).

2008-2014 Universite Paris 7, Phd under the supervision of Marco Panza. Title of the dissertation: “Impossibility results from geometry to analysis”. Dissertation completed on 14/10/2014 with honors (“très honorable avec félicitations”).

Prizes, grants, fellowships

Project H2020-MSCA-IF-2020, 101024431: “Teaching and learning practices of calculus in the 18th century: the case of Italian mathematics and its European dimension.”, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice.

19/01/2020 – 08/02/2020 – Research stay under the RiP (Research in Pairs) with Prof. Andrey Bovykin on “impossibility results in Mathematics”. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach (MFO), Oberwolfach, GERMANY.

01/04/2019 – GACR - Junior Grant number 9-03125Y, Mathematics in the Czech lands, from the Jesuit teaching to Bernard Bolzano. Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.

01/04/2018 – 31/03/2020 - Postdoctoral fellowship at SPHère (U. Paris Diderot), in the project MATHESIS – Leibniz's Unpublished Geometrical Manuscripts, Edition and Commentary (ANR-17-CE27-0018).

2017-2018 Recipient of the Grattan Guinness grant for the history of mathematics, for a research project on the archival study of manuscripts related to the tradition of differential calculus in Italy between XVIIIth and XXth century.

2015-2016 Daad short-term postdoctoral scholarship (awarded for the period: 01 April 2016 - 30 June 2016), Leibniz Archive, Hannover, Germany.

Publications (forthcoming and recent)

Forthcoming: (with M. Rosa Massa Esteve), "The consolidation of algebraization in the 17th and 18th centuries: a dialogue between dwarfs and giants, centres and peripheries”, College Publication London.

Crippa, D. “Christian Wolff’s Elementa Matheseos Universae, Methodology, and Mathematical Education”, In Mathematical Book Histories. Printing, Provenance, and Practices of Reading (P. Beeley, C. Mac an Bhaird, eds.), forthcoming, 2023.

Crippa, D. (With E. Fuentes Guillén), “La reforma de la geometria protesta por Bolzano en 1804.” In La génesis del conocimiento geométrico. María de Paz and José Ferreiros (Eds.), Plaza y Valdés, forthcoming, 2023.

Crippa, D. “Teaching Elementary Mathematics at the University of Prague during the Second Half of the 18th century.” Almagest, vol 13, 1, 2022, pp. 80-141.

Crippa, D. (Review). “Bernard Bolzano’s early essays on mathematics and method, Edgar Morscher and Steve Russ, eds. Bernard Bolzano, Band I,1: Mathematische Schriften 1804-1810. Stuttgart, Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 2020, 200 pp, € 268.” Metascience, 30, pp. 495– 498.

Organisation of scientific meetings

01/06/2022 Online lecture by Paolo Mancosu: “How many points are in a line segment? From Grosseteste to numerosities.” Participants: ca. 25. Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, ITALY.

26/07/2021 Online symposium organized with M. Rosa Massa Esteve: Giants and dwarfs in the transformations of mathematics in the XVIII century – International Congress of the History of Science and Technology Society congress), Prague.

10/12-11/12/2020 Online workshop: “Intuition and rigour in geometrical thinking”, international workshop co-organized with Ladislav Kvasz. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.

24/09/2019 “Mathematical Sciences in the Czech lands”, workshop co-organized with Jan Makovsky. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC.

Reviewer for Zentralblatt fűr Mathematik, Mathematical Reviews, Historia Mathematica, Review of Symbolic Logic, Oxford university press, Annals of Science.

Language skills: Italian, English (fluent), French (fluent), Portuguese (fluent), Latin (read and written proficiency, 5 years high-school+1 year university course with written and oral exams + reading and translation of Latin mathematical texts from the XVIIth Century), German (Good), Spanish (basic), Czech (level A2).

Teaching and academic activities

Member of the Phd committee of Antonio Mellado's phd thesis (Murcia, 2022), Bodo von Pape’s Phd thesis (Wuppertal, 2022), Eduardo Dorrego’s Phd. thesis (Sevilla, 2021), Elías Fuentes Guillèn's Phd thesis (Salamanca, 2017).

Logic and its applications (course on the classical problems of antiquity): Charles University, Department of philosophy (2 classes in 2020, 3 classes in 2022, Spring semesters).