Amy Shell-Gellasch

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Amy Shell-Gellasch is a mathematician, historian of mathematics, and book author. She has written or edited the books

Her article "The Spirograph & mathematical models from 19th-century Germany" (Math. Horizons 2015) was selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016. [6]

Shell-Gellasch earned a doctorate (D.A.) from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000, with a dissertation that became her book on Mina Rees. [7] She is an associate professor of mathematics at Montgomery College in Maryland. [8] She has also served as the archivist for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics. [9]

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References

  1. ↑ Reviews of Algebra in Context:
    • Schulte, Tom (January 2016), "Review", MAA Reviews
    • Baylis, John (February 2017), The Mathematical Gazette, 101 (550): 177–179, doi:10.1017/mag.2017.42, S2CID   165091906 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Stewart, Cindia (January 2018), Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, 8 (1): 432–440, doi: 10.5642/jhummath.201801.21 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  2. ↑ Reviews of In Service to Mathematics:
    • Gray, Jeremy (2012), Mathematical Reviews, MR   2883650 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Stenger, Allen (April 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
    • Keen, Linda (September–October 2012), "Review" (PDF), AWM Newsletter, 42 (5), archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-10, retrieved 2018-09-10
  3. ↑ Review of Mathematical Time Capsules:
    • Klyve, Dominic (August 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
  4. ↑ Reviews of Hands on History:
    • Arney, Chris (Spring 2008), "Review", Mathematics and Computer Education, 42 (2): 167–168
    • Nissen, Phillip (November 2008), The Mathematics Teacher, 102 (4): 319, JSTOR   20876355 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Allaire, Patricia R. (August 2009), Historia Mathematica, 36 (3): 291–292, doi: 10.1016/j.hm.2009.01.003 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. ↑ Reviews of From Calculus to Computers:
  6. ↑ "Contents", The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016, De Gruyter, 2016, ISBN   9781400885602
  7. ↑ MR 2700978
  8. ↑ Dr. Amy Shell-Gellasch to Give a Public Lecture at National Museum of Mathematics in New York City, Montgomery College, January 26, 2017, retrieved 2018-09-09
  9. ↑ Van Brummelen, Glen; Kinyon, Michael (2005), Mathematics and the historian's craft, CMS Books in Mathematics, vol. 21, New York: Springer, p. 3, doi:10.1007/0-387-28272-6, ISBN   978-0387-25284-1, MR   2156756
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