Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236209 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ivor Grattan-Guinness |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ivor |
| FAMILY NAME | Grattan-Guinness |
| SIGNATURE | GRATTAN-GUINNESS I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University, Enfield, Middlesex EN3 4SF |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840
VI.27 Siméon-Denis Poisson
VI.25 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
The role of an editor
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Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), man of dissent
Russell argued against the Great War, but he also wanted to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union after World War II, and later he advocated nuclear disarmament. How could a great logician accommodate such inconsistencies? How, as a private citizen, did he make such a world-wide impact in his late years
Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
George Boole
George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (…
Philosophy of Mathematics
The questions concerning the nature and philosophy of mathematics and which are familiar to all acquainted with the history of speculative opinion, form, it is probable, but a small part of those which have at different times occurred to earnest students without perhaps ever passing out of the silent region of thought into the outward world of controversy. The common notion of mathematics that it consists of a few clear sharp axioms, capable of b…
Die Godelschen Unvollstandigkeitssatze
The Sylvester Medal
The Sylvester Medal is an award made by the Royal Society ‘for the encouragement of mathematical research irrespective of nationality, and not confined to pure mathematical research’. It was instituted in memory of the Jewish mathematician James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897), soon after his death. The Jewish community took the initiative, forming a committee chaired by Lord Rothschild and including the mathematicians A.R. Forsyth, A.G. Greenhill a…
Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Plantinga on Essentialism, Sklar on Space-Time, Stroll on Surfaces and Walton on Fiction are all examples.This two-volume work is clearly printed and well constructed, being likely to withstand the wear a reference text can be expected to suffer.It is a delight to dip into; the phrase 'hard to put down' is certainly apt.At £210, however, it is not likely to appeal to individual buyers and, notwithstanding its merits, I cannot say that the conside…
Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840
The entry of Fresnel
If the word did not refer to someone who owns a shop where one buys spectacles, I would be tempted to call Fresnel an ‘optician’. Yet this would also be unfair, for he also contributed to electrodynamics (§14.2.4). Born in 1788 at Broglie in Normandy to an architect and builder, Augustin Jean Fresnel was brought up in Caen, where he studied at the local school. Entering the Ecole Polytechnique in 1804 with Binet, a year after Arago and a year bef…
The 18th-century heritage
After an attempt in the last two chapters to survey the vast amount of work done in and around the calculus, I come now to the even vaster and more complicated developments in mechanics. This subject was very much at the heart of 18th-century mathematics, and the quantity of the research is as awe-inspiring as its mathematical and historical complications. For example, the quantity and range of Euler’s work alone is bewildering; not only the cent…
Aspects of engineering mathematics, 1800–1816
As was made clear in Chapter 2 and elsewhere, the new system of engineering schools was introduced principally to supply engineers for public works and military needs. This chapter and Chapter 16 are the principal places in this book for discussions of French engineering, but its concerns permeate several other sections. We shall see in §19.3.1, as a major feature of French physical science, that about half the savants with whom we are concerned …
The entry of physicist Ampère
From Fresnel we move to his landlord Ampère, known already in our pages as a mathematician but now to take his major place for his contributions to the founding of electromagnetism and electrodynamics, in a frenzy of activity carried out between 1820 and 1827. As with Fresnel’s Chapter 13 and Fourier in Chapter 9, one figure dominates, and so a fairly close chronology can be followed.
The varieties of mechanics by 1800
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) after twenty years
1990 marks the vicesenary of the death of Bertrand Russell, in his 98th year; and this arithmetical property is sufficient reason to review the historical research that has been published on his life and work during the past 20 years. During his long life he had already become the subject of historical research in many of his activities; but this interest accelerated considerably around the time of his death because in the mid 1960s he had decide…
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Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800–1840
The entry of Fresnel
If the word did not refer to someone who owns a shop where one buys spectacles, I would be tempted to call Fresnel an ‘optician’. Yet this would also be unfair, for he also contributed to electrodynamics (§14.2.4). Born in 1788 at Broglie in Normandy to an architect and builder, Augustin Jean Fresnel was brought up in Caen, where he studied at the local school. Entering the Ecole Polytechnique in 1804 with Binet, a year after Arago and a year bef…
The 18th-century heritage
After an attempt in the last two chapters to survey the vast amount of work done in and around the calculus, I come now to the even vaster and more complicated developments in mechanics. This subject was very much at the heart of 18th-century mathematics, and the quantity of the research is as awe-inspiring as its mathematical and historical complications. For example, the quantity and range of Euler’s work alone is bewildering; not only the cent…
Aspects of engineering mathematics, 1800–1816
As was made clear in Chapter 2 and elsewhere, the new system of engineering schools was introduced principally to supply engineers for public works and military needs. This chapter and Chapter 16 are the principal places in this book for discussions of French engineering, but its concerns permeate several other sections. We shall see in §19.3.1, as a major feature of French physical science, that about half the savants with whom we are concerned …
The entry of physicist Ampère
From Fresnel we move to his landlord Ampère, known already in our pages as a mathematician but now to take his major place for his contributions to the founding of electromagnetism and electrodynamics, in a frenzy of activity carried out between 1820 and 1827. As with Fresnel’s Chapter 13 and Fourier in Chapter 9, one figure dominates, and so a fairly close chronology can be followed.
The varieties of mechanics by 1800
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) after twenty years
1990 marks the vicesenary of the death of Bertrand Russell, in his 98th year; and this arithmetical property is sufficient reason to review the historical research that has been published on his life and work during the past 20 years. During his long life he had already become the subject of historical research in many of his activities; but this interest accelerated considerably around the time of his death because in the mid 1960s he had decide…
Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology
Plantinga on Essentialism, Sklar on Space-Time, Stroll on Surfaces and Walton on Fiction are all examples.This two-volume work is clearly printed and well constructed, being likely to withstand the wear a reference text can be expected to suffer.It is a delight to dip into; the phrase 'hard to put down' is certainly apt.At £210, however, it is not likely to appeal to individual buyers and, notwithstanding its merits, I cannot say that the conside…
The Sylvester Medal
The Sylvester Medal is an award made by the Royal Society ‘for the encouragement of mathematical research irrespective of nationality, and not confined to pure mathematical research’. It was instituted in memory of the Jewish mathematician James Joseph Sylvester (1814-1897), soon after his death. The Jewish community took the initiative, forming a committee chaired by Lord Rothschild and including the mathematicians A.R. Forsyth, A.G. Greenhill a…
George Boole
George Boole (1815-1864) is well known to mathematicians for his research and textbooks on the calculus, but his name has spread world-wide for his innovations in symbolic logic and the development and applications made since his day. The utility of "Boolean algebra" in computing has greatly increased curiosity in the nature and extent of his achievements. His work is most accessible in his two books on logic, "A mathematical analysis of logic" (…
Philosophy of Mathematics
The questions concerning the nature and philosophy of mathematics and which are familiar to all acquainted with the history of speculative opinion, form, it is probable, but a small part of those which have at different times occurred to earnest students without perhaps ever passing out of the silent region of thought into the outward world of controversy. The common notion of mathematics that it consists of a few clear sharp axioms, capable of b…
Die Godelschen Unvollstandigkeitssatze
Landmark Writings in Western Mathematics 1640-1940
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), man of dissent
Russell argued against the Great War, but he also wanted to drop atomic bombs on the Soviet Union after World War II, and later he advocated nuclear disarmament. How could a great logician accommodate such inconsistencies? How, as a private citizen, did he make such a world-wide impact in his late years
VI.27 Siméon-Denis Poisson
VI.25 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier
The role of an editor
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Convolutions in French Mathematics, 1800-1840
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