Research Areas

History of Mathematics and Logic; Historical Epistemology, Cultures of Proof and Proving; Global Histories of Science; Early Modern Afro-Eurasia

History of Mathematics and Logic; Historical Epistemology, Cultures of Proof and Proving; Global Histories of Science; Early Modern Afro-Eurasia Tomasson is a scholar of the history of science and mathematics, historical epistemology, and global premodernity more broadly. She is completing her dissertation “Histories and Practices of Proof across Epistemic Cultures: Transmission, Translation, and Traditions of Arabic Mathematics in and between Europe and the Islamicate World” at Columbia University, which is based upon her intensive and extensive manuscript and archival research conducted in the US, UK, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Austria, Germany, Turkey, and digital repositories from across the Middle East and North Africa. Tomasson holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University, where her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and two FLAS awards from the Department of Education for the study of Classical Arabic. She has also assisted in the curation of several museum and rare book exhibits, the most recent of which was “Science, Nature, and Beauty: Harmony and Cosmological Perspectives in Islamic Science.”