Adrian Rice received his Ph.D. from Middlesex University, London, in 1997. He also holds masters and bachelors degrees from King's College London, and University College London, respectively. He came to Randolph-Macon in September 1999 after having served as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia from 1998-1999, and a lecturer at Middlesex University from 1995 to 1998.

History of Mathematics.
In particular: 19th- and early 20th-century British algebra, analysis and logic; the history of elliptic functions; and the work of Augustus De Morgan (1806-1871).

• “Vindicating Leibniz in the calculus priority dispute: The role of Augustus De Morgan”, in
  The History of the History of Mathematics. Ed. Benjamin Wardhaugh. Peter Lang Publishers, 2012, pp. 89–114.

• “Why ellipses are not elliptic curves” (with Ezra Brown),
  Mathematics Magazine 85 (2012), 163-176.
  

        


    Mathematics in Victorian Britain
    (with Raymond Flood and Robin Wilson)

    Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

 

• “The Harmonic Series: A Primer”, in Mathematical Time Capsules: Historical Modules for the Mathematics Classroom
  Ed. Dick Jardine and Amy Shell-Gellasch. Washington DC: Mathematical Association of America, 2011, pp.269–276.

• “ ‘To a factor près’: Cayley’s Partial Anticipation of the Weierstrass P-Function”,
  The American Mathematical Monthly 117 (2010), 291-302.
  

• “In Search of the ‘Birthday’ of Elliptic Functions”, The Mathematical Intelligencer 30 (No.2) (2008), 48-56.

• “ ‘Shutting up like a telescope’: Lewis Carroll’s ‘Curious’ Condensation Method for Evaluating
  Determinants” (with Eve Torrence), College Mathematics Journal 38 (2007), 85-95.

        


    The Book of Presidents 1865–1965
    (with Susan Oakes and Alan Pears)

    London: London Mathematical Society, 2005.

 

• “De Morgan in the prehistory of statistical hypothesis testing” (with Eugene Seneta),
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) 168 (2005), 615-627.

• “ ‘Everybody makes errors’: The intersection of De Morgan's logic and probability, 1837-1847”,
  History and Philosophy of Logic 24 (2003), 289-305.

• “The rise of British analysis in the early 20th century: the role of G. H. Hardy and the London
  Mathematical Society” (with Robin J. Wilson), Historia Mathematica 30 (2003), 173-194.
  

        

    Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International
    Mathematical Research Community, 1800-1945
    (with Karen Hunger Parshall)

    Providence: American Mathematical Society, and
    London: London Mathematical Society, 2002.

 
• “A Gradual Innovation: The Introduction of Cauchian Calculus into mid-nineteenth-century Britain”,
  Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics 13 (2001), 48-63.
  
 
• “Inexplicable? The status of complex numbers in Britain, 1750-1850”, in
  Around Caspar Wessel and the Geometric Representation of Complex Numbers,
  Ed. Jesper Lützen. Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2001, pp.147-180.
  
 
• “Extending Euler: a little-known episode in the prehistory of quaternions”,
  Proceedings of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics 12 (2000), 143-163.
  
 
• “What makes a great mathematics teacher? The case of Augustus De Morgan”,
  The American Mathematical Monthly 106 (1999), 534-552.
  
 
• “From National to International Society: the London Mathematical Society 1867-1900”
  (with Robin J. Wilson), Historia Mathematica 25 (1998), 185-217.
  
 
• “Inspiration or Desperation?
  Augustus De Morgan's appointment to the Chair of Mathematics at London University in 1828”,
  British Journal for the History of Science 30 (1997), 257-274.
  
 
• “Mathematics in the Metropolis: a survey of Victorian London”, Historia Mathematica 23 (1996), 376-417.
  
 
• “Augustus De Morgan : Historian of Science”, History of Science 34 (1996), 201-240.
  
 
• “From Student Club to National Society : The Founding of the London Mathematical Society in 1865”
(with Robin J. Wilson & J. Helen Gardner), Historia Mathematica 22 (1995), 402-421.