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Ivor Grattan-Guiness
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Education Details

  • DSc
  • PhD
  • MSC (Econ)
  • MA
  • BA

Career Details

  • Currently Associate Editor for mathematicians and statisticians for the New Dictionary of National Biography, to be published in 2004.
  • Acts as advisory editor to several other journals and book series and, to the editions of the writings of C. S. Peirce and Bertrand Russell
  • 1994 Edited a substantial Companion Encyclopaedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences (two volumes)
  • 1991 Elected an effective member of the Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences
  • 1986 - 1988 President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and Vice President in 1992
  • 1979 he founded the journal History and Philosophy of Logic, and edited it until 1992. Serves on its current board.
  • 1974 - 1994 Associate Editor of Historia Mathematic and again from 1996
  • 1974 - 1981 Editor of the History of Science Journal Annals of Science

Teaching Interests

  • History of mathematics
  • Logic and mathematics education

Research Interests

  • History and philosophy of mathematics and logic
  • History and philosophy of science

Selected Publications

  • Grattan-Guinness, I. (1996) ‘Numbers, Magnitudes, Ratios and Proportions in Euclid’s Elements: How did He Handle Them?’, Historia Mathematica, Vol. 23, pp. 355-375, ISSN: 0315-0860
  • Grattan-Guinness, I. (2000) ‘A Sideways Look at Hilbert’s Twenty-Three Problems of 1900’, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 47 (2), pp. 752-757, ISSN: 08128
  • Grattan-Guinness, I. (2000) The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 817 pages, ISBN: 0-393-32030-8
  • Grattan-Guinness, I. (2000) The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870-1940, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 690 pages, ISBN: 0-691-05858-X

 

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