and the relationship of Eastern mathematics to the development of mathematics and related disciplines in the West. The collection contains some 22,000 volumes, 700 fascicles, and a number of manuscripts. The holdings consist of both antiquarian and recent materials published in Sanskrit, Arabic, Hindi, Persian and Western languages. Awards Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 1981, he was a member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard, the American Philosophical Society, and the Institute for Advanced Study; he was also A.D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University from 1995. Selected works 1970: Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (5 volumes) American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1976: Dorothei Sidonii carmen astrologicum (Teubner, Leipzig). 1978: The Yavanajātaka of Sphujidhvaja (2 volumes), Harvard Oriental Series 48 1986:Vettii Valentis Antiocheni Anthologiarum Libri Novem (Teubner, Leipzig). 1997: (edited with Charles Burnett) The Liber Aristotilis of Hugo of Santalla, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 26, London 2002: (with Takanori Kusuba) Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit: Al-Birjandī on Tadhkira II, Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation, Brill, Leiden 2005: (with Erica Reiner) Babylonian Planetary Omens, Brill, Leiden See the Worldcat listing for further titles. Articles in dictionaries and encyclopedias Pingree D., Brunner C. J. Astrology and astronomy in Iran // Encyclopædia Iranica Astrology // Britannica Astrology // The Dictionary of the History of Ideas (1973–74) References Sources and external links Memorial by Kim Plofker and Bernard R. Goldstein in Aestimatio (http://www.ircps.org/aestimatio/2/70-71) Memorial by Toke Lindegaard Knudsen in the Bulletin of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics https://web.archive.org/web/20070927032441/http://faculty.umf.maine.edu/~molinsky/cshpm/Bulletin/38-2006.pdf (pp. 5–6) Death notice in the Brown Daily Herald https://web.archive.org/web/20070929104430/http://www.browndailyherald.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&uStory_id=47d666ba-15db-402b-bd71-a539c61b03c5 "An Indiana Jones of Mathematics" in the George Street Journal https://web.archive.org/web/20080516054525/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/Pingree.html A collection of PDFs of some texts used by Dr. Pingree and his students, including a copy of a Heiberg edition of the Almagest used by Dr. Pingree himself: http://www.wilbourhall.org 1933 births 2005 deaths Harvard University alumni Brown University faculty Cornell University faculty Harvard Fellows Historians of science American historians of mathematics MacArthur Fellows American astrological writers American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American historians 21st-century American male writers 21st-century American historians