b. 1947
Jeremy Gray (born 1947) is a British historian and philosopher of mathematics, emeritus professor at the Open University and honorary professor at the University of Warwick. He is best known for his historical studies of 19th- and early 20th-century mathematics, particularly the development of non-Euclidean and projective geometry, and for defending a formalist-historicist position on mathematical truth.
Argued that mathematical theories such as metric geometry are formal systems with no intrinsic truth value independent of interpretation
Authored 'Plato's Ghost' (2008), a major study of the modernist transformation of mathematics circa 1890–1930
Wrote 'Worlds Out of Nothing' (2007), a foundational history of projective geometry
Produced a landmark scientific biography of Henri Poincaré examining his philosophy of geometry and conventionalism
Received the Albert Leon Whiteman Memorial Prize (2009) from the American Mathematical Society for historical scholarship