Henrik Kragh Sørensen

Research output

Research output per year 2002 2006 2008 2010 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018 2019

• 39 Journal article
• 24 Book chapter
• 11 Literature review
• 6 Book
• 24 More
  • 4 Review
  • 3 Encyclopedia chapter
  • 3 Working paper
  • 2 Article in proceedings
  • 2 Preface/postscript
  • 2 Conference abstract in journal
  • 2 Editorial
  • 1 Anthology
  • 1 Ph.D. thesis
  • 1 Contribution to newspaper - Feature article
  • 1 Contribution to newspaper - Newspaper article
  • 1 Letter
  • 1 Net publication - Internet publication

Research output per year

Research output per year

Search results

• 2013

  StenoMusen runder 60 numre

  Sørensen, H. K., Jun 2013, In: Stenomusen. 60

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• What's Abelian about abelian groups?

  Sørensen, H. K., 1 Mar 2013, In: BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics. 28, 1, p. 1-15 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  • Narrative 100%
  • Abelian group 71%
  • Group Theory 61%
  • Lemniscate of Bernoulli 60%
  • Names 49%
• 2012

  Confluences of Agendas: German Refugees and Mathematics in Denmark, 1933–1945

  Sørensen, H. K., 2012, In: Oberwolfach Reports. 51, 1144, p. 61-65 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal › Research

• Making philosophy of science relevant for science students

  Sørensen, H. K., 2012

  Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Education

• Reading Mittag-Leffler’s biography of Abel as an act of mathematical self-fashioning

  Sørensen, H. K., 2012, The History of the History of Mathematics. Wardhaugh, B. (ed.). Oxford etc.: Peter Lang, p. 115-144

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research
• 2011

  At begribe det ubegribelige: Matematikkens antikke verden

  Sørensen, H. K., 2011, Antikkens Verden. Videnskab, kunst, kultur, myter og religion. Høiris, O. & Poulsen, B. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 121-136 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication

• Matematik på det store lærred: Stereotyper om matematik og matematikere eksemplificeret ved tre nyere amerikanske film

  Sørensen, H. K., 2011, Fra laboratoriet til det store lærred. Danielsen, K. & Thomasen, L. S. (eds.). p. 40-58 19 p. (RePoSS: Research Publications on Science Studies; No. 13).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
• 2010

  50 = 2½ × 20 = L = 5² + 5² = 1² + 7² = …

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, In: Stenomusen. 50, p. 1,13 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Contribution to newspaper - Feature article

• Ebbinghaus, Heinz-Dieter [Peckhaus, Volker]: Ernst Zermelo. An approach to his life and work. In cooperation with Volker Peckhaus. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-49551-2/hbk). xiv, 356 p. EUR 49.95/net; SFR 82.00; $ 64.95; £38.50 (2007)

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1176.01011

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Experimental mathematics in the 1990s: A second loss of certainty?

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, In: Oberwolfach Reports. 1, p. 601-604 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Conference abstract in journal › Research

• Exploratory experimentation in experimental mathematics: A glimpse at the PSLQ algorithm

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, PhiMSAMP. Philosophy of Mathematics: Sociological Aspects and Mathematical Practice. Löwe, B. & Müller, T. (eds.). London: College Publications, p. 341-360 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Introduction: In honour of Kirsti Andersen

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

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial

• Relations between mathematics and theology: Theological aspects of the notion of infinity in the history of mathematics

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, God — a Mathematician?. Kragh, H. & Vejrup Nielsen, M. (eds.). Århus: Forum Teologi Naturvidenskab, p. 27-70 (Proceedings of the DanishScience-Theology Forum, Vol. 5).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Throwing Some Light on the Vast Darkness that is Analysis: Niels Henrik Abel’s Critical Revision and the Concept of Absolute Convergence

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 52, 1, p. 38-72

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Tusind Engle på et Knappenålshoved: Matematikken i Middelalderen

  Sørensen, H. K., 2010, Middelalderens Verden: Verdensbilledet, tænkningen, rummet og religionen. Høiris, O. & Ingesman, P. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 91-104 14 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
• 2009

  23rd International Congress of the IUPHS

  Sørensen, H. K., 2009, In: Viewpoint: Newsletter for the British Society for the History of Science. 90, p. 10 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review

• For hele Norges skyld: Et causeri om Abel og Darwin

  Sørensen, H. K., 2009, Århus, 15 p.

  Research output: Working paper › Research

• Hawkins, Thomas: Frobenius and the symbolical algebra of matrices. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 62, No. 1, 23-57 (2008)

  Sørensen, H. K., 2009, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1169.01012

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Representations as means and ends: Representability and habituation in mathematical analysis during the first part of the nineteenth century

  Sørensen, H. K., 2009, New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics. Van Kerkhove, B. (ed.). New Jersey etc.: World Scientific, p. 114-137 23 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Vedkommende videnskabsteori

  Kragh, H., Pedersen, K. M., Klostergaard, L., Sørensen, H. K., Knudsen, H., Andersen, H. & Nielsen, K., 2009, In: Aktuel Naturvidenskab. 1, p. 32-35 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Communication

• “Denne sætning kan ikke bevises”: Da matematikken blev moderne

  Sørensen, H. K., 2009, Modernitetens Verden: Tiden, videnskab, historien og kunst. Høiris, O. & Ledet, T. (eds.). Århus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 251-263 13 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
• 2008

  Abel, Niels Henrik

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, New Dictionary of Scientific Biography. Detroit etc.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Vol. 1. p. 5-8 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Research

• Aksel Frederik Andersen

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2008): Portrait Gallery: Officers of the ICMI. Furinghetti, F. & Giacardi, L. (eds.). L'Università di Torino on line

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Communication

• Et helt liv - i og for matematikken: Anmeldelse af: Arild Stubhaug: Met viten og vilje: Gösta Mittag-Leffler (1846-1927), Aschehoug, Oslo 2007, 774 s., ill.

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, In: Historisk Tidsskrift. 87, 4, p. 717-722 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review

• Lumiste, Ülo; Piirimäe, Helmut: Sven Dimberg, an introductor of Newton's Principia into the University of Tartu in the 1690s. I. Translation by Jaak Peetre and Staffan Rodhe with annotations. Normat 53, No. 4, 155-172 (2005).

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1128.01016

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review

• Matematikhistorie som mål eller middel? Matematikhistorie til brug i gymnasiets matematikundervisning: Kommentar til de to artikler af Uffe T. Jankvist "Den matematikhistoriske dimension i undervisning - generelt set" i MONA, 2007(3), og "Den matematikhistoriske dimension i undervisning - gymnasialt set" i MONA, 2008(1)

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, In: MONA: Matematik og Naturfagsdidaktik. 2, p. 83-86 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter

• Poul Heegaard

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, The First Century of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction (1908-2002): Portrait Gallery: Officers of the ICMI.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Encyclopedia chapter › Communication

• Romantikkens ligninger - matematikkens genier

  Sørensen, H. K., 2008, Romantikkens Verden. Høiris, O. & Ledet, T. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 551-566 16 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Communication
• 2007

  An Odd Couple: Descartes and Longomontanus. A Contribution to Cartesianism in Seventeenth-Century Denmark

  Kragh, H. & Sørensen, H. K., 2007, In: Ideas in History. 2, 1, p. 9-35

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Karen H. Parshall and Adrian C. Rice, eds., Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945 (American Mathematical Society; London Mathematical Society, 2002). 406 pp. hc. ISBN 0-8218-2124-5.

  Sørensen, H. K., 2007, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 49, 2, p. 179-181

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Longomontanus og cirklens kvadratur: Talmystik, matematik og kontrovers

  Sørensen, H. K. & Kragh, H., 2007, In: Normat. 55, 3, p. 97-118

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

• Longomontanus og Descartes: Et Møde i København 1631

  Kragh, H. & Sørensen, H. K., 2007, In: Meddelelser fra Ole Rømers Venner. 15, 1, p. 57-69 13 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

• Oliveri, Gianluigi: Mathematics as a quasi-empirical science. Found. Sci. 11, No. 1-2, 41-79 (2006).

  Sørensen, H. K., 2007, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1124.00006

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• The Higher Weight Enumerators of the Doubly-Even, Self-Dual [48,24,12] Code

  Britz, D., Britz, T., Shiromoto, K. & Sørensen, H. K., 2007, In: I E E E Transactions on Information Theory. 53, 7, p. 2567-2571 5 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  8 Citations (Scopus)
• 2006

  En udstrakt broderlig hånd: Skandinaviske matematikerkongresser indtil slutningen af 1. verdenskrig

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Normat. 54, 1-2, p. 1-17, 49-60

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research

• Houzel, Christian: The Work of Niels Henrik Abel, in Laudal, Olav Arnfinn (ed.) et al., The legacy of Niels Henrik Abel. Papers from the Abel bicentennial conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, June 3-8, 2002. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 3-540-43826-2/hbk). 21-177 (2004).

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1077.01013

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Louis Olivier: A mathematician only known through his publications in Crelle's Journal during the 1820s

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 38, 3, p. 201-231 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

• Matematik, statistik og datalogi

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie. Nielsen, H. & Hvidtfelt Nielsen, K. (eds.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Vol. 4. p. 105-124 20 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Matematik og statistik

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, Dansk Naturvidenskabs Historie. Kjærgaard, P. C. (ed.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, Vol. 3. p. 193-216 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Niels Henrik Abel's Political and Professional Legacy in Norway

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century. Siegmund-Schultze, R. & Sørensen, H. K. (eds.). Oslo: Novus forlag, p. 197-219

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Olav Arnfinn Laudal and Ragni Piene (eds.), The Legacy of Niels Henrik Abel (Berlin: Springer, 2004). 785 pp. hc. €79.95. ISBN 3-540-43826-2

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Centaurus (Copenhagen). 48, 1, p. 66-67

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Review

• Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Introduction

  Siegmund-Schultze, R. & Sørensen, H. K., 2006, Perspectives on Scandinavian Science in the Early Twentieth Century. Siegmund-Schultze, R. & Sørensen, H. K. (eds.). Oslo: Novus forlag, p. 11-18

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Schubring, Gert: Conflicts between generalization, rigor and intuition. Number concepts underlying the development of analysis in 17th-19th century France and Germany. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 0-387-22836-5/hbk). xiv+678p. €119.95; sFr. 203.00, £92.50; $129.00 (2005)

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1086.01001

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Tent, M. B. W.: The prince of mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss. Wellesley, MA: A K Peters (ISBN 1-56881-261-2/hbk). xviii+245p. $27.95 (2006)

  Sørensen, H. K., 2006, In: Excerpts from Zentralblatt MATH. 1098.01009

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research
• 2005

  Bodil Branner; Jesper Lützen (eds.), Caspar Wessel: On the Analytical Representation of Direction (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 1999). 143 pp. pb. DKK 500. ISBN 87-7876-158-1. Jesper Lützen (ed.),  Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers (Copenhagen: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001). 293 pp. pb. DKK 300. ISBN 87-7876-236-7

  Sørensen, H. K., 2005, In: Centaurus. 47, 1, p. 73-74 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Eksakte videnskaber - mere eller mindre: De matematiske videnskaber

  Sørensen, H. K., 2005, Natur, Nytte og Ånd, 1730-1850. Kragh, H. (ed.). Aarhus Universitetsforlag, p. 293-301 9 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research

• Exceptions and counterexamples: Understanding Abel's comment on Cauchy's Theorem

  Sørensen, H. K., 2005, In: Historia Mathematica. 32, 4, p. 453-480 28 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review

  13 Citations (Scopus)

• Matematik i det offentlige satiriske rum for hundrede år siden

  Sørensen, H. K., 2005, In: Matilde: Nyhedsbrev for Dansk Matematisk Forening. 25, p. 17-23,25,32 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research
• 2004

  C. C. Heyde; Eugene Seneta (eds.), Statisticians of the Centuries (Heidelberg: Springer, 2001). 500 pp. pb. DM 96. ISBN 0-387-95283-7

  Sørensen, H. K., 2004, In: Centaurus. 46, 2, p. 175-176 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Literature review › Research

• Habituation and representation of elliptic functions in Abel’s mathematics

  Sørensen, H. K., 2004, In: Oberwolfach Reports. 51, p. 2750-2752 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review