Bruce Pourciau

736 total citations
31 papers, 324 citations indexed

About

Bruce Pourciau is a scholar working on History and Philosophy of Science, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Theoretical Computer Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Pourciau has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 324 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in History and Philosophy of Science, 10 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Theoretical Computer Science. Recurrent topics in Bruce Pourciau's work include History and Theory of Mathematics (9 papers), Historical Philosophy and Science (9 papers) and Optimization and Variational Analysis (6 papers). Bruce Pourciau is often cited by papers focused on History and Theory of Mathematics (9 papers), Historical Philosophy and Science (9 papers) and Optimization and Variational Analysis (6 papers). Bruce Pourciau collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Bruce Pourciau's co-authors include Rob Iliffe, Mordechai Feingold, William Harper, Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Alan E. Shapiro, George Smith, Scott Mandelbrote, Howard Stein, William R. Newman and Robert DiSalle and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, American Journal of Physics and Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Pourciau

30 papers receiving 281 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Bruce Pourciau United States	10	113	90	89	64	55	31	324
Herbert Meschkowski Germany	8	59 0.5×	44 0.5×	34 0.4×	5 0.1×	16 0.3×	38	353
Michael Reeken Germany	9	108 1.0×	76 0.8×	27 0.3×	2 0.0×	19 0.3×	32	296
Tom C. Brown Canada	10	234 2.1×	136 1.5×	4 0.0×	9 0.1×	28 0.5×	46	400
Boris Rosenfeld United States	6	34 0.3×	100 1.1×	14 0.2×	31 0.5×	2 0.0×	10	232
John Edensor Littlewood	3	34 0.3×	56 0.6×	5 0.1×	9 0.1×	24 0.4×	4	264
Ernst Snapper United States	10	71 0.6×	108 1.2×	12 0.1×	7 0.1×	3 0.1×	32	294
Czes Kosniowski United Kingdom	10	50 0.4×	197 2.2×	5 0.1×	9 0.1×	12 0.2×	26	327
Deane Montgomery United States	10	91 0.8×	362 4.0×	3 0.0×	25 0.4×	9 0.2×	22	633
Washek F. Pfeffer United States	13	144 1.3×	242 2.7×	3 0.0×	11 0.2×	18 0.3×	74	587
Vagn Lundsgaard Hansen Denmark	11	71 0.6×	235 2.6×	3 0.0×	12 0.2×	5 0.1×	50	400

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20 of 20 papers shown

Pourciau, Bruce. (2019). The Principia’s second law (as Newton understood it) from Galileo to Laplace. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 74(3). 183–242. 1 indexed citations

Iliffe, Rob, Rob Iliffe, Rob Iliffe, et al.. (2016). The Cambridge Companion to Newton. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 10 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (2006). Force, deflection, and time: Proposition VI of Newton's Principia. Historia Mathematica. 34(2). 140–172. 4 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (2006). Newton's Interpretation of Newton's Second Law. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 60(2). 157–207. 28 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (2004). The Importance of Being Equivalent: Newton?s Two Models of One-Body Motion. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 58(4). 283–321. 7 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (2003). Newton's Argument for Proposition 1 of the Principia. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 57(4). 267–311. 13 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (2001). Newton and the Notion of Limit. Historia Mathematica. 28(1). 18–30. 13 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (1999). The Education of a Pure Mathematician. American Mathematical Monthly. 106(8). 720–732. 3 indexed citations

Pourciau, Bruce. (1997). Reading the Master: Newton and the Birth of Celestial Mechanics. American Mathematical Monthly. 104(1). 1–1. 4 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1992). Newton's solution of the one-body problem. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 44(2). 125–146. 5 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1992). Radical principia. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 44(4). 331–363. 8 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1991). On newton's proof that inverse-square orbits must be conics. Annals of Science. 48(2). 159–172. 20 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1988). Global invertibility of nonsmooth mappings. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 131(1). 170–179. 17 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1983). Homeomorphisms and generalized derivatives. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 93(2). 338–343. 4 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1983). Multiplier rules and the separation of convex sets. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 40(3). 321–331. 6 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1983). Univalence and degree for Lipschitz continuous maps. Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. 81(3). 289–299. 8 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1982). On the Carathéodory-John Multiplier Rule. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 87(2). 373–381. 5 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1982). Hadamard's theorem for locally Lipschitzian maps. Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. 85(1). 279–285. 32 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1980). Modern Multiplier Rules. American Mathematical Monthly. 87(6). 433–452. 21 indexed citations

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Pourciau, Bruce. (1977). Analysis and optimization of Lipschitz continuous mappings. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications. 22(3). 311–351. 69 indexed citations

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