{"name": "H. Brian Griffiths", "bio": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Brian Griffiths (1927\u20132008) was a British mathematician and educator who served as a member of the founding editorial board of Educational Studies in Mathematics. As a mathematician, Griffiths is remembered through his work on what continue to be known as \u2018Griffiths-type\u2019 topological spaces. As a mathematics educator, his most profound contribution was, with Geoffrey Howson, in offering a conceptualisation of the relationship between mathematics, society and curricula."}, "remote_ids": {"viaf": "61621253", "wikidata": "Q18558696", "isni": "0000000117662375", "lc_naf": "n50031070"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "death_date": "2008", "birth_date": "1927", "title": "(Hubert Brian)", "alternate_names": ["Brian Griffiths", "Hubert Brian Griffiths", "H. B. Griffiths", "h. b. griffiths", "H. Brian Griffiths", "Hugh Brian Griffiths"], "links": [{"title": "Obituary", "url": "https://www.researchgate.net/publication/225641656_Brian_Griffiths_1927-2008_-_His_pioneering_contributions_to_mathematics_and_education", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Texas A&M catalog record", "url": "https://catalog.library.tamu.edu/Author/Home?author=Griffiths%2C+H.+Brian+%28Hubert+Brian%29", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Obituary", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/40284552", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Obituary", "url": "https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Obituaries/Griffiths_Brian_Guardian/", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "source_records": ["bwb:9781461263210"], "personal_name": "H. Brian Griffiths", "key": "/authors/OL1658408A", "latest_revision": 5, "revision": 5, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-10-30T18:17:08.192844"}}