Jeremy John Gray
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Website : Jeremy Gray at Open University
Emeritus Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Open University. Author of Plato's Ghost; Henri Poincaré: A Scientific Biography; Ideas of Space; and others.
Primary Contributions (12)
Carl Friedrich Gauss German mathematician, generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time for his contributions to number theory, geometry, probability theory, geodesy, planetary astronomy, the theory of functions, and potential theory (including electromagnetism). Gauss was…
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Publications (3)
Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics
Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with physics, philosophy, theology, psychology, and ideas about real and artificial languages. He shows how mathematics was popularized, and explains how mathematical modernism not only gave expression...
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Ideas of Space: Euclidean, non-Euclidean, and Relativistic
Early Gemometry -- Euclidian Geometry And The Parrallel Postulate -- Investigations By Islamic Mathematicians -- Saccheri And His Western Predecessors -- J.h. Lambert's Work -- Legendre's Work -- Gauss's Contribution -- Trigonometry -- First New Geometries -- Discoveries Of Lobachevskii And Bolyai -- Curves And Surfaces Jeremy Gray. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [235]-239).