Jeremy Gray

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Jeremy Gray
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Jeremy Gray (left) presenting the Kenneth O. May Medal to Henk Bos, 2005.
Born (1947-04-25) 25 April 1947 (age 76)
Scientific career
Institutions Open University
University of Warwick
Doctoral advisor Ian Stewart and David Fowler

Jeremy John Gray (born 25 April 1947) is an English mathematician primarily interested in the history of mathematics.

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Biography

Gray studied mathematics at the University of Oxford from 1966 to 1969, and then at Warwick University, obtaining his PhD in 1980 under the supervision of Ian Stewart and David Fowler. He has worked at the Open University since 1974, and became a lecturer there in 1978. He also lectured at the University of Warwick from 2002 to 2017, teaching a course on the history of mathematics.

Gray was a consultant on the television series, The Story of Maths , [1] a co-production between the Open University and the BBC. [2] He edits Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

In 1998 he was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. [3] In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [4]

Books

Gray has been awarded prizes for his contributions to mathematics, including the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize from the American Mathematical Society in 2009, [5] [6] the Otto Neugebauer Prize of the European Mathematical Society in 2016, [7] and the London Mathematical Society's Hirst Prize and Lectureship in 2018.

He has authored the following:

Books edited or co-edited:

He has also contributed to other books:

Notes

  1. To Infinity and Beyond 27 October 2008 21:00 BBC Four
  2. "Science Weekly podcast: The story of maths". The Guardian . 13 October 2008. Archived from the original on 28 October 2022.
  3. Gray, Jeremy J. (1998). "The Riemann-Roch theorem and geometry, 1854–1914". Doc. Math. (Bielefeld) Extra Vol. ICM Berlin, 1998, vol. III. pp. 811–822.
  4. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  5. "Warwick Mathematics Institute News 2009".
  6. https://www.ams.org/profession/prizes-awards/prizebooklet-2009.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  7. "7ECM – Laureates".
  8. Blank, Brian E. (September 2002). "joint review of The Hilbert Challenge by Jeremy Gray and The Honors Class by Benjamin Yandell" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 49 (8): 911–915.
  9. Graves, David (18 January 2001). "Review of The Hilbert Challenge by Jeremy Gray". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  10. Osserman, Robert (October 2005). "review of János Bolyai, Non-Euclidean Geometry, and the Nature of Space by Jeremy Gray" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 52 (9): 1030–1034.
  11. Rowe, David E. (2012). "Review: Plato's ghost: the modernist transformation of mathematics by Jeremy Gray". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (N.S.). doi: 10.1090/S0273-0979-2012-01403-9 .
  12. Stillwell, John (2014). "Review of Henri Poincaré. A Scientific Biography by Jeremy Gray" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 61 (4): 378–383.
  13. Das, Tushar (29 July 2015). "Review of Hidden Harmony – Geometric Fantasies. The Rise of Complex Function Theory by Umberto Bottazzini and Jeremy Gray". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.

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