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Ivor Grattan-Guinness è stato uno storico della matematica e della logica britannico.

È stato socio dell'Institute for Advanced Study di Princeton e membro della Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences.

Dal 1974 al 1981 è stato editor del periodico di storia della scienza "Annals of Science".

Nel 1979 ha fondato il periodico "History and Philosophy of Logic", del quale è stato editor fino al 1992.

È stato associate editor di "Historia Mathematica" per vent'anni, dalla sua nascita nel 1974, e ancora successivamente dal 1996.

L'attività di Grattan-Guinness tocca tutti i periodi storici, ma egli si è interessato soprattutto di Euclide, dello sviluppo del calcolo infinitesimale e dell'analisi matematica e delle loro applicazioni alla meccanica e alla fisica matematica, e dell'emergere della teoria degli insiemi e della logica matematica. Egli si è specialmente interessato nel caratterizzare come i pensatori del passato molto lontani da noi sul piano temporale vedano le loro scoperte con occhi differenti da quelli con cui noi le vediamo oggi; egli ha anche enfatizzato l'importanza dell'ignoranza come nozione epistemologica per la suddetta caratterizzazione. Grattan-Guinness ha sviluppato una estesa ricerca sulle fonti originali, grazie alla sua conoscenza di alcune delle principali lingue europee. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. Giugno 1941 – 12. Dicembre 2014
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Ivor Grattan-Guinness: Frasi in inglese

“The teaching of axioms should come after conveying the theory in a looser version.”

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Origine: The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences (2000), p. 740.

“From the 3rd century onwards, orthodox Christianity, based on a Hebrew story and worshipping the Jew Jesus, also led many campaigns of anti-Semitism.”

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Origine: The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences (2000), p. 127.

“Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.”

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Companion encyclopedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences (2003)

“In addition, the teaching of theories from axioms, or some close imitation of them such as the basic laws of an algebra, is usually an educational disaster.”

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Origine: The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences (2000), p. 739.

“It [ non-Euclidean geometry ] would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire [nineteenth] century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight.”

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Origine: The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences (2000), p. 400.

“Operations research has many precursors and allied fields, including Taylorism (after Frederick W. Taylor), scientific management and management science, industrial engineering and systems analysis. As one early textbook explained, the roots of OR "are as old as science and the management function. Its name dates back only to 1940" (Churchman et al. 1957: 3). Certainly its practitioners have expended much energy and ink in search of an acceptable definition of OR. Morse tried unsuccessfully to halt the debate by declaring OR to be 'the activity carried on by members of the Operations Research Society' (Morse 1953: 159) But his colleagues were not so easily dissuaded from debate. Much of the concern with definition focused on the sometimes elusive distinctions between OR and neighbouring fields; the attempt to define, or redefine, OR was also born of the desire to allow the subject to evolve beyond the orthodoxy of wartime experience. Crucial considerations included the balance between model and application, and the complexity of the mathematics involved.”

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Origine: Companion encyclopedia of the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences (2003), p. 841.

“Non-Newtonian calculi… have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.”

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"Non-Newtonian Calculus," Middlesex Math Notes (Middlesex University, England), 1977.

“Mathematics occupies a peculiar position in cultural life today. 'Everybody knows' that it is one of the most basic, and also ancient, types of knowledge; yet it is not part of normal cultural discourse, and few people know much about its historical development, or even that it has a history.”

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Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 1, page 3, 2003.

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