Glen Van Brummelen

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Glen Robert Van Brummelen (born May 20, 1965) is a Canadian historian of mathematics specializing in the history of trigonometry and historical applications of mathematics to astronomy.

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He is president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, [1] and was a co-editor of Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures (Springer, 2005).

He has been involved in the summer program Mathpath since 2004 and is the creator of "Glensheep" and their evolution. [2]


Life

Van Brummelen earned his PhD degree from Simon Fraser University in 1993, [3] and served as a professor of mathematics at Bennington College from 1999 to 2006. He then transferred to Quest University Canada as a founding faculty member. In 2020, he became the dean of the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences at Trinity Western University in Langley, BC. [4]

Glen Van Brummelen has published the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry, The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry. [5] His second book, Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry, concerns spherical trigonometry. [6] [7]

In 2016 he received a Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ CSHPM Council Archived 2013-12-27 at the Wayback Machine , retrieved 2013-12-26.
  2. ↑ MathPath Faculty and Staff
  3. ↑ Glen Van Brummelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ "Trinity Western University Welcomes New Dean of the Faculty of Natural and Applied Sciences". Trinity Western University. 29 May 2020. Retrieved 24 November 2024.
  5. ↑ McRae, Alan S. (2009), Review of The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth, MR   2473955.
  6. ↑ Steele, John M. (July 2013), "A forgotten discipline (review of Heavenly Mathematics)", Metascience, doi:10.1007/s11016-013-9836-9, S2CID   254793113
  7. ↑ Funk, Martin (2013), Review of Heavenly Mathematics, MR   3012466.
  8. ↑ "Recipients of the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics; Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org.
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