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Ivor Grattan-Guiness Individual Web pages
Education Details
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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 dHistoire 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 Euclids Elements: How did He Handle Them?, Historia Mathematica, Vol. 23, pp. 355-375, ISSN: 0315-0860
- Grattan-Guinness, I. (2000) A Sideways Look at Hilberts 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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