Helena Mary Pycior (born 1947)[1] is an American historian known for her works in the history of mathematics, Marie Curie, and human-animal relations.
She is a professor emerita of history at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[2] Pycior has a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in history, both from Cornell University.
[2] Her 1976 doctoral dissertation was titled The Role of Sir William Rowan Hamilton in the Development of British Modern Algebra.
[3] Pycior is the author of the book Symbols, Impossible Numbers, and Geometric Entanglements: British Algebra Through the Commentaries on Newton's Universal Arithmetick (Cambridge University Press, 1997),[4] and the coeditor of Creative Couples in the Sciences (with Nancy G. Slack and Pnina G. Abir-Am, Rutgers University Press, 1996).