Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness in 2003.
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| Born |
23 June 1941 Bakewell, England |
| Died | 12 December 2014 (aged 73) England |
| Residence | England |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Mathematician, historian, logician |
| Institutions |
Middlesex University London School of Economics |
| Alma mater |
Wadham College, Oxford London School of Economics University of London |
| Doctoral students | Niccolò Guicciardini |
| Known for | History of mathematics, history of logic |
| Notable awards | Kenneth O. May Medal |
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He shared a birthday with the mathematician Alan Turing, born 29 years earlier.
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Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness (23 June 1941 – 12 December 2014) was a historian of mathematics and logic.
Grattan-Guinness was born in Bakewell, England; his father was a mathematics teacher and educational administrator. He gained his bachelor degree as a Mathematics Scholar at Wadham College, Oxford, and an MSc (Econ) in Mathematical Logic and the Philosophy of Science at the London School of Economics in 1966. He gained both the doctorate (PhD) in 1969, and higher doctorate (D.Sc.) in 1978, in the History of Science at the University of London. He was Emeritus Professor of the History of Mathematics and Logic at Middlesex University, and a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics.
He was awarded the Kenneth O. May Medal for services to the History of Mathematics by the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) on 31 July 2009, at Budapest, on the occasion of the 23rd International Congress for the History of Science. In 2010, he was elected an Honorary Member of the Bertrand Russell Society.
Grattan-Guinness spent much of his career at Middlesex University. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, and a member of the International Academy of the History of Science.
From 1974 to 1981, Grattan-Guinness was editor of the history of science journal Annals of Science. In 1979 he founded the journal History and Philosophy of Logic, and edited it until 1992. He was an associate editor of Historia Mathematica for twenty years from its inception in 1974, and again from 1996.
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