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Jeremy John Gray (born 25 April 1947) is an English
mathematician
A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems.
Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, structure, space, models, and change.
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primarily interested in the history of mathematics.
Biography
Gray studied mathematics at
Oxford University
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from 1966 to 1969, and then at
Warwick University
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, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1980 under the supervision of
Ian Stewart and David Fowler. He has worked at the
Open University
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since 1974, and became a lecturer there in 1978. He also lectured at the
University of Warwick
, mottoeng = Mind moves matter
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £7.0 million (2021)
, budget = £698.2 million (2020â ...
from 2002 to 2017, teaching a course on the history of mathematics.
Gray was a consultant on the
television
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series, ''
The Story of Maths'',
[''To Infinity and Beyond'' 27 October 2008 21:00 BBC Four] a co-production between the
Open University
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and the
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. He edits
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
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.
In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the
International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. In 2012 he became a fellow of the
American Mathematical Society
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.
Books
Gray has been awarded prizes for his contributions to mathematics, including the
Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize __NOTOC__
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The prize was endowed in 1998 with funds provided by Sally Whit ...
from the
American Mathematical Society
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in 2009, the Otto Neugebauer Prize of the
European Mathematical Society
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in 2016, and the
London Mathematical Society’s Hirst Prize and Lectureship in 2018.
He has authored the following:
* ''Ideas of space: Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and relativistic''. Oxford University Press 1979, 2nd edition 1989, Spanish edition, Ideas de Espacio, Mondadori Espana, 1992. Romanian edition, Idei Spatiu, Editura All Educational, 1998.
* ''Linear differential equations and group theory from Riemann to Poincaré'' Birkhäuser, 1986, 2nd edition with three new appendices and other additional material, 2000, Japanese edition 2002.
* ''The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues'' (with
J. V. Field). Springer 1986.
* ''Geometry'' (with D.A. Brannan and M. Esplen). Cambridge University Press 1999, 2nd edition 2012, Arabic edition 2001.
''The Hilbert Challenge'' Oxford University Press 2000, French translation Le défi de Hilbert Dunod, 2003, Taiwanese translation 2003, Spanish translation El reto de Hilbert Critica, 2004.
* ''Janos Bolyai, non-Euclidean Geometry and the Nature of Space''. Burndy Library, MIT, 2004.
* ''Worlds out of Nothing; A Course on the History of Geometry in the 19th Century''. Springer 2006, 2nd revised edition 2010.
* ''Plato’s Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics''. Princeton University Press 2008.
Princeton University Press 2012.
* ''Hidden Harmony - Geometric Fantasies. The Rise of Complex Function Theory'' (with
Umberto Bottazzini
Umberto Bottazzini (born 1947 in Viadana, Lombardy) is an Italian historian of mathematics, writing on the history of mathematics and the foundations of mathematics.
Biography
Bottazzini graduated in 1973 with the ''Laurea'' degree from the Univer ...
). Springer 2013.
* ''The Real and the Complex: A History of Analysis in the 19th Century''. Springer 2015.
* ''A History of Abstract Algebra: From Algebraic Equations to Modern Algebra''. Springer 2018.
* ''Change and Variations: A History of Differential Equations to 1900''. Springer 2021.
Books edited or co-edited:
* ''The History of Mathematics; a Reader'' (with John Fauvel). Macmillan 1987.
* ''L'Europe mathématique, Mathematical Europe'' (with
C. Goldstein and J. Ritter). Edited with an introductory essay, Éditions de la maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris 1996.
* ''Henri Poincaré: Three Supplementary Essays on the Discovery of Fuchsian Functions'' (with Scott Walter) Edited with an introductory essay, Akademie Verlag and Blanchard 1997.
''The symbolic universe: geometry and physics, 1890-1930'' Edited with an introduction and an essay, Oxford University Press 1999.
* ''Jacques Hadamard: Non-Euclidean Geometry in the Theory of Automorphic Functions'' (with Abe Shenitzer), translated Abe Shenitzer with an introductory essay by J.J. Gray, American and London Mathematical Societies Series in the History of Mathematics, HMath17, 1999.
''Mathematical Conversations; Selections from the Mathematical Intelligencer''(with
Robin Wilson) Springer 2000. There is also a Japanese edition.
''Gauss − Titan of Science'' A re-edition of
G. Waldo Dunnington’s book of 1956, with a new introduction and appendices by J.J. Gray, Mathematical Association of America, 2003.
* The Architecture of Modern Mathematics. Edited volume, with an essay by J.J. Gray and one with the co-editor, José Ferreirós, Oxford University Press 2006.
* ''Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra 1800—1950''. Edited volume, with an introduction by J.J. Gray and the co-editor,
Karen Parshall
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, American and London Mathematical Societies Series in the History of Mathematics, HMath32, 2007.
He has also contributed to other books:
* ''
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
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* ''The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics''
* ''
Revolutions in Mathematics
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''Revolutions in Mathematics'' is a 1992 collection of essays in the history and philosophy of mathematics.
Contents
*Michael J. Crowe, Ten "laws" concerning patterns of change in the history of mathematics (1975) (15–20);
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Notes
External links
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Living people
20th-century English mathematicians
21st-century English mathematicians
British historians of mathematics
Academics of the University of Warwick
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
1947 births
English male writers
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Alumni of the University of Warwick