Antoni Malet
Antoni Malet | |
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Malet in 2009 | |
| Born | 23 February 1950 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | History of science |
| Institutions | Pompeu Fabra University |
| Doctoral advisor | Charles Gillispie |
Antoni Malet (born 23 February 1950) is a Catalan historian of mathematics. He is a professor of history of science at Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona. His research interests are mostly in the history of mathematics and optics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Malet earned his Ph.D. in 1989 from Princeton University as a student of Charles Gillispie, with the thesis Studies on James Gregorie (1638–1675).
Malet served as president of the European Society for the History of Science 2016–2018.