Ivor Grattan-Guinness

"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."

"Encomium at Mathematical Sciences Foundation."

"Operations research has many precursors and allied fields, including Taylorism , scientific management and management science, industrial engineering and systems analysis. As one early textbook explai…"

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

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

"It would be ranked among the most famous achievements of the entire century, but up to 1860 the interest was rather slight."

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

"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 discour…"