Jenne O’Brien

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History
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Year of Study:
Third Year
Cohort:
2016-2017
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Jenne studies the history of mathematics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At Columbia, Jenne double majored in mathematics and history, and wrote her senior thesis on non-Euclidean geometry’s role in Nietzsche’s famed turn to nihilism.
Jenne’s other interests include the history of the physical sciences, modern European intellectual history, and Northern Renaissance art.
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