Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Ivor Grattan - Guinness (born 23 June 1941 in Bakewell, Derbyshire, United Kingdom ) is a British historian of mathematics.

Life and work

Grattan - Guinness studied at Oxford Mathematics ( bachelor's degree in 1962, MA 1967) and math at the London School of Economics, Logic and Philosophy of Science ( Master's degree 1966). In 1969 he received his doctorate at the University of London on History of Science, and in 1978 he received his D.Sc. After that, he was professor of mathematics history and logic at Middlesex University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. 1978 he was a Fulbright Scholar and 1979 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He is an Associate of the London School of Economics and since 1991 a member of the Academie Internationale d' Histoire des Sciences.

Since its foundation in 1974, he was co-editor of Historia Mathematica. In 1979 he founded the journal History and Philosophy of Logic, whose editor he was until 1992. 1977 to 1993 he was on the Executive Committee of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics. 1986 to 1988 he was president of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.

As a historian of mathematics, he worked primarily with the history of mathematical logic, the foundations of mathematics and the foundations of analysis, especially in the French school in the early 19th century, where he also emphasized the interaction of mathematics with its applications.

In 2009 he was awarded the Kenneth O. May Prize.

Writings

  • The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann. MIT Press, 1970 ( the book was written from his dissertation).
  • With Jerome R. Ravetz, Joseph Fourier 1768-1830. MIT Press, 1972 ( with a critical edition of Fourier's prize essay on heat spreader of 1807 ).
  • Dear Russell - Dear Jourdain. Duckworth, London, 1977 ( correspondence Philip Jourdain, Bertrand Russell)
  • Publisher: From the Calculus to Set Theory, 1630-1910: An Introductory History. Duckworth, 1980, Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840. 3 volumes, Birkhauser, 1990.
  • The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences. Fontana 1997 W.W.Norton 1999.
  • The Search for Mathematical Roots 1870-1940: Logics, Set Theories, and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel. Princeton University Press, 2000.
  • Publisher: Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences. 2 volumes, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.
  • Publisher: Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics, Elsevier, 2004.
  • Decline, then recovery. An overview over the history of mathematics in the 20th century, History of Science, Volume 42, 2004, p.279 -312
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