Jeremy Gray

Jeremy J. Gray (born April 25, 1947 ) is a British mathematician.

Gray studied mathematics at Oxford and the University of Warwick , where he received his PhD in 1980 under David Fowler (and Ian Stewart ). From 1974 he was at the Open University in Milton Keynes , where he has been professor for the history of mathematics since 2002. He also teaches regularly at Warwick University and is an Affiliated Research Fellow in the History of Science department at Cambridge University . In 1996 he was Resident Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science at MIT .

Gray is primarily concerned with the history of geometry and function theory in the 19th and 20th centuries. He edited Carl Friedrich Gauss ' mathematical diary and a new edition of Waldo Dunnington's Gauss biography (with additions).

In 1998 he was an invited lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin ( The Riemann Roch Theorem and Geometry. 1854–1914 ). In 2009 he received the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize of the American Mathematical Society , of which he is a fellow. In 2016 he was awarded the Otto Neugebauer Prize of the European Mathematical Society .

June Barrow-Green is one of his PhD students .

Fonts

• The Fields Medal and other prizes (= The world's best mathematical articles in the 21st century. 8). e-enterprise, Lemgo 2019, ISBN 978-3-945059-42-5 .
• A history of abstract algebra. From algebraic equations to modern algebra. Springer, Cham 2018, ISBN 978-3-319-94772-3 .
• Henri Poincaré. A Scientific Biography. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2013, ISBN 978-0-691-15271-4 . Review by Stillwell, Notices AMS, 2014, No. 4 .
• with Umberto Bottazzini : Hidden Harmony - Geometric Fantasies. The rise of complex function theory. Springer, New York NY et al. 2013, ISBN 978-1-4614-5724-4 .
• Plato's ghost. The modernist transformation of mathematics. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ et al. 2008, ISBN 978-0-691-13610-3 ( Review by David Rowe, Bulletin AMS, 2013 ).
• Worlds out of nothing. A course in the history of geometry in the 19th century. Springer, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84628-632-2 .
• as editor with Jose Ferreirós: The architecture of modern mathematics. Essays in history and philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2006, ISBN 0-19-856793-6 .
• Janos Bolyai, non-Euclidean geometry, and the nature of space (= Burndy Library Publications. NS Volume 1). Burndy Library, Cambridge MA 2004, ISBN 0-262-57174-9 .
• as editor with Robin Wilson : Mathematical conversations. Selections from "The Mathematical Intelligencer". Springer, New York NY et al. 2001, ISBN 0-387-98686-3 .
• The Hilbert Challenge. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 2000, ISBN 0-19-850651-1 .
• with David A. Brannan and Matthew F. Esplen: Geometry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1999, ISBN 0-521-59787-0 .
• The Symbolic Universe. Geometry and Physics 1890-1930. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-850088-2 .
• Algebraic geometry in the late nineteenth century. In: David E. Rowe , John McCleary (Eds.): The history of modern mathematics. Volume 1: Ideas and their reception. Academic Press, Boston MA 1989, ISBN 0-12-599661-6 , pp. 361-385.
• as editor with John Fauvel : The History of mathematics. A reader. Macmillan Education et al., Houndmills et al. 1987, ISBN 0-333-42790-4 .
• with Judith V. Field: The geometrical work of Girard Desargues. Springer, New York NY et al. 1987, ISBN 3-540-96403-7 .
• Linear differential equations and group theory from Riemann to Poincaré. Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 1986, ISBN 3-7643-3318-9 (also: Warwick, University, dissertation).
• Who would have won the Fields medals a hundred years ago? In: The Mathematical Intelligencer . Volume 7, No. 3, 1985, pp. 10-19, doi : 10.1007 / BF03025801 .
• Gray Fuchs and the theory of differential equations. In: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. NS Volume 10, No. 1, 1984, ISSN  0273-0979 , pp. 1–26, (Erratum in: Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. NS Volume 12, No. 1, 1985, p. 182, doi : 10.1090 / S0273-0979-1985-15342-X ).
• Ideas of space. Euclidean, non-Eudlicean, relativistic. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1979, ISBN 0-19-853352-7 .

Web links

• Homepage at the Open University
• biography
• Gray "From the history of a finite simple group", first in Mathematical Intelligencer 1982, PDF file (476 B)
• Awarded the Whiteman Prize to Gray

References

1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ^ A commentary on Gauss mathematical diary. In: Expositiones Mathematicae. Volume 2, 1984, pp. 87-130 (with reprint)
3. ^ Lecture at the ICM Berlin
4. ↑ Whiteman Prize to Jeremy Gray (pdf; 126 kB)