Jesper Lützen

Jesper Lützen

Assistant Professor


  1. 2023
  2. Published

    A history of mathematical impossibility

    Lützen, Jesper, 2023, Oxford University Press. 284 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    On “Space” and “Geometry” in the Nineteenth Century

    Lützen, Jesper, 2023, The Richness of the History of Mathematic: A Tribute to Jeremy Gray. Springer, p. 317 - 339 (Archimedes, Vol. 66).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. 2022
  5. Published

    A Question of Fundamental Methodology: Reply to Mikhail Katz and His Coauthors

    Archibald, T., Arthur, R. T. W., Ferraro, G., Gray, J., Jesseph, D., Lützen, Jesper, Panza, M., Rabouin, D. & Schubring, G., 2022, In: The Mathematical Intelligencer. 44, 4, p. 360–363

    Research output: Contribution to journalComment/debateResearch

  6. 2021
  7. Published

    Hjelmslev's geometry of reality

    Lützen, Jesper, 2021, In: Historia Mathematica. 54, p. 95-116

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. Published

    Hjelmslev’s Model celebrating Juel’s Synthetic Theory of Surfaces

    Lützen, Jesper, 2021, In: Mathematische Semesterberichte. 68, p. 17-26

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  9. 2020
  10. Published

    BOOK REVIEW: The Impossibility of Squaring the Circle in the 17th Century. A Debate Among Gregory, Huygens and Leibniz, Davide Crippa, Birkhäuser (2019), viii+184 pp.

    Lützen, Jesper, 2020, In: Historia Mathematica. 52, p. 99-103 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearch

  11. Published

    The mystery of ten wooden blocks: Hjelmslev’s geometry of reality

    Lützen, Jesper, 2020, In: Mathematische Semesterberichte. 67, 2, p. 161-167

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  12. 2019
  13. Published

    How mathematical impossibility changed welfare economics: A history of Arrow's impossibility theorem

    Lützen, Jesper, 2019, In: Historia Mathematica. 46, p. 56-87 32 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    The Rise and Fall of Descriptive Geometry in Denmark

    Lützen, Jesper, 2019, Descriptive Geometry, The Spread of a Polytechnic Art: The Legacy of Gaspard Monge. Barbin, É., Menghini, M. & Volkert, K. (eds.). Springer, p. 255-274 (International Studies in the History of Mathematics and its Teaching).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  15. 2017
  16. Published

    De fysiske og matematiske videnskaber

    Kragh, Helge Stjernholm, Lützen, Jesper & Birkedal, L., Nov 2017, Et Jubilæumsskrift: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1742-2027 . København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 201-221

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  17. Published

    Den moderne matematik

    Lützen, Jesper, Nov 2017, Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab 1742-2017. Et jubilæumsskrift. Nielsen, M. A. (ed.). København: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab, p. 204-208

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  18. Published

    From Nancy to Copenhagen to the World: The internationalization of Laurent Schwartz and his theory of distributions

    Barany, M. J., Paumier, A. & Lützen, Jesper, Nov 2017, In: Historia Mathematica. 44, 4, p. 367-394

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    A Brief History of Numbers by Leo Corry

    Lützen, Jesper, 2017, In: Mathematical Intelligencer. 39, 3, p. 87-90

    Research output: Contribution to journalLiterature reviewResearchpeer-review

  20. 2015
  21. Published
  22. Published

    Interactions Between Mathematics and Physics: The History of the Concept of Function—Teaching with and About Nature of Mathematics

    Kjeldsen, Tinne Hoff & Lützen, Jesper, 2015, In: Science & Education. 24, 5, p. 543-559

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    Let G be a group

    Lützen, Jesper, 2015, Mathematics, Substance and Surmise: Views on the Meaning and Ontology of Mathematics. Davis, E. & Davis, P. J. (eds.). Switzerland: Springer, p. 177-192

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  24. 2014
  25. Published

    17th century arguments for the impossibility of the indefinite and the definite circle quadrature

    Lützen, Jesper, 2014, In: Revue d'histoire des Mathematiques. 20, 2, p. 211-251

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  26. 2013
  27. Published

    Mathematical Impossibility in History and in the Classroom

    Lützen, Jesper, 2013, In: Cuadernos de Investigación y Formación en Educación Matemática. 8, 11, p. 165-174

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    The Interaction of Physics, Mechanics and Mathematics in Joseph Liouville's Research

    Lützen, Jesper, 2013, The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century. Barbin, E. & Pisano, R. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 79-96 (History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Vol. 16).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  29. 2012
  30. Published

    Mechanics and mathematics in Joseph Liouville's research

    Lützen, Jesper, 2012, The Circulation of Science and Technology: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Barcelona, 18-20 November 2010. Barcelona: SCHCT-IEC, p. 520-521

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  31. 2011
  32. Published

    The Physical Origin of Physically Useful Mathematics

    Lützen, Jesper, Sep 2011, In: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 36, 3, p. 229-243 15 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Examples and Reflections on the Interplay between Mathematics and Physics in the 19th and 20th century

    Lützen, Jesper, 2011, Mathematics meets Physics: A contribution to their interaction in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. Schlote, K-H. & Schneider, M. (eds.). Frankfurt am Main, p. 17-41 25 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  34. 2010
  35. Published

    Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930

    Hendricks, Vincent F. (ed.), Pedersen, S. A. (ed.), Jørgensen, K. F. (ed.) & Lützen, Jesper (ed.), 23 Nov 2010, Paperback ed. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. 338 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  36. Published

    Diskrete Matematiske Metoder

    Lützen, Jesper, 2010, København. 248 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  37. Published

    Entretien avec Jesper Lützen: Une invitation à étudier les travaux de Liouville

    Lützen, Jesper, 2010, In: SABIX. Bulletin de la Société des Amis de la Bibliothèque et de l'Histoire de l'École polytechnique. 45, p. 23 - 26

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  38. Published

    Introduction: In Honour of Kirsti Andersen

    Lützen, Jesper & Sørensen, H. K., 2010, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 52, 1, p. 1-3

    Research output: Contribution to journalEditorialResearch

  39. Published

    The Algebra of Geometric Impossibility: Descartes and Montucla on the Impossibility of the Duplication of the Cube and the Trisection of the Angle

    Lützen, Jesper, 2010, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 52, 1, p. 4-37

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  40. 2009
  41. Published

    Studieretningsprojekter i matematik og historie

    Lützen, Jesper, 2009, In: Noter om Historie og Undervisning. 181, p. 14-18

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  42. Published

    Why was Wantzel overlooked for a century?The changing importance of an impossibility result

    Lützen, Jesper, 2009, In: Historia Mathematica. 36, p. 374-394

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. 2008
  44. Published

    Charles François Sturm and Differential Equations

    Lützen, Jesper & Mingarelli, A., 2008, Collected Works of Charles François Sturm. Pont, J-C. (ed.). Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, p. 25-47

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  45. Published

    Er matematiske umulighedssætninger noget særligt?

    Lützen, Jesper, 2008, Filosofiske Studier: Festskrift tilegnet Docent dr.phil Carl Henrik Koch. Collin, F. & Flor, J. R. (eds.). København: Museum Tusculanum, Vol. 24. p. 251-266

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  46. Published

    Joseph Liouville

    Lützen, Jesper, 2008, The Princeton Companion to Mathematics. Gowers, T. (ed.). Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, p. 766 1 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterCommunication

  47. Published

    Matematisk Metode

    Lützen, Jesper & Kiming, Ian, 2008, København: Museum Tusculanum. 187 p.

    Research output: Book/ReportBookEducation

  48. Published

    Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century: Edited by Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze and Henrik Kragh Sørensen

    Lützen, Jesper, 2008, In: Historia Mathematica. 34, 4, p. 335-336 2 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  49. Published

    The Geometric Aspects of Hertz's Prinzipien der Mechanik

    Lützen, Jesper, 2008, Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)and the Development of Communication: Proceedings of the Symposium for History of Science, Hamburg, October 8-12, 2007. Nuncius Hamburgensis. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften. Band 10. Norderstedt bei Hamburg: Books on Demand GmbH, p. 201-209 9 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  50. 2007
  51. Published

    Images and Conventions: Kantianism, empiricism, and conventionalism in Hertz's and Poincaré's philosophies of space and mechanics

    Lützen, Jesper, 2007, The Kantian Legacy in Nineteenth-Century Science. Cambridge Massachussetts: MIT Press, p. 315-330 16 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  52. Published

    Taltegn og talbegreber. En historisk rejse

    Lützen, Jesper, 2007, Matema10k: Matematik for gymnasiet, A-niveau. Jensen, T., Jessen, C. & Nielsen, M. O. (eds.). 1 ed. København: Frydenlund Academic, Vol. 3. p. 125-154 29 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterEducation

  53. Published

    The Mathematization of the Physical Sciences - Differential Equations of Nature

    Lützen, Jesper, 2007, History of Mathematics, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, http://www.eolss.net. Gray, J. & Hansen, V. L. (eds.). Oxford, UK: Eolss Publishers

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingEncyclopedia chapterResearch

  54. 2006
  55. Published

    A Mechanical Image: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics

    Lützen, Jesper, 2006, Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930. Lützen, J., Hendricks, V. F., Jørgensen, K. F. & Pedersen, S. A. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer, p. 45-63 18 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science; No. 251).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  56. Published

    A Scientific Duo: Reflections on the Interplay between Mathematics and Physics

    Lützen, Jesper, 2006, In: EMS Newsletter. 60, p. 23-27

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  57. Published

    Dirichlet and the flexibility of the concept of function

    Lützen, Jesper, 2006, The Way Through Science and Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Stig Andur Pedersen. Andersen, H. B., Christiansen, F. V., Jørgensen, K. F. & Hendricks, V. F. (eds.). U.K.: King's College Publications, p. 51-64

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  58. Published

    Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930

    Hendricks, Vincent F. (ed.), Jørgensen, K. F. (ed.), Lützen, Jesper (ed.) & Pedersen, S. A. (ed.), 2006, Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. 340 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 251).

    Research output: Book/ReportAnthologyResearchpeer-review

  59. Published

    Introduction

    Hendricks, Vincent F., Jørgensen, K. F., Lützen, Jesper & Pedersen, S. A., 2006, Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930. Hendricks, V. F., Jørgensen, K. F., Lützen, J. & Pedersen, S. A. (eds.). Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media, p. ix-x 2 p. (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Vol. 251).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingPreface/postscriptResearch

  60. 2005
  61. Published

    En videnskabelig duo: Matematikkens samspil med fysik 1809-1950

    Lützen, Jesper, 2005, In: mat Matilde. 22, p. 18-20

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  62. Published

    Heinrich Hertz, Posthumous book on Mechanics (1894)

    Lützen, Jesper, 2005, Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940. Grattan-Guinness, I. (ed.). Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 677-689

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  63. Published

    Mechanistic Images in Geometric Form: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics

    Lützen, Jesper, 2005, --. Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 1-318

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  64. 2004
  65. Published

    The Mathematician Sophus Lie: It was the Audacity of my Thinking

    Lützen, Jesper, 2004, In: Mathematical Intelligencer. 26, p. 60-64

    Research output: Contribution to journalReviewResearch

  66. 2003
  67. Published

    Between Rigor and Applications. Developments in the Concept of Function in Mathematical Analysis

    Lützen, Jesper, 2003, Between Rigor and Applications. Developments in the Concept of Function in Mathematical Analysis. 5:The Modern Phys. and Math. Sciences ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 468-487

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  68. Published

    Matematikkens og Rummets Natur

    Lützen, Jesper, 2003, Matematikkens og Rummets Natur. 5 ed. Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 28-31

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

  69. Published

    The Foundation of Analysis in the 19th century

    Lützen, Jesper, 2003, The Foundation of Analysis in the 19th century. Intet ed. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society, p. 155-195

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingReport chapterResearch

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