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

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

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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Born: June 23, 1941
Died: December 12, 2014 (aged 73)
Bio: Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness was a historian of mathematics and logic.
Known for:
  1. Joseph Fourier, 1768-1830 (2003)
  2. The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 (2000)

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