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Jeremy Gray | |
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 Gray at Oberwolfach in 2015 | |
| Born | 25 April 1947 |
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| 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.
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]
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.
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