William G. McCallum | |
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| McCallum, 1984 | |
| Born | 1956 (age 68–69) |
| Occupation(s) | Mathematician, professor |
| Known for | Led the development of the Common Core standards for mathematics |
| Title | Distinguished Professor |
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| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Thesis | On the Shafarevich-Tate group of the jacobian of a quotient of the Fermat curvature (1988) |
| Doctoral advisor | Barry Mazur [1] |
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| Discipline | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Arizona (1987-2018) |
William G. McCallum (born 1956 in Sydney,Australia) [1] is a retired University Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the University of Arizona. His professional interests include arithmetical algebraic geometry and mathematics education.
McCallum received a bachelor's degree from the University of New South Wales in 1977, [2] and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Harvard University in 1984,under the supervision of Barry Mazur. [3]
He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California,Berkeley and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley before joining the University of Arizona in 1987. [1] He became University Distinguished Professor from 2006 until his retirement in 2018,and headed the Department of Mathematics from 2009 to 2013. [2]
McCallum helped found the Harvard Calculus Consortium with other mathematicians including Andrew M. Gleason and Deborah Hughes Hallett. [4] He led the development of the Common Core standards for mathematics from 2009 until the standards were first released in 2010. [5] In 2014 he founded a company,eventually known as Illustrative Mathematics,to develop teaching resources for the mathematics standards that he helped develop. [6]
In 2012,McCallum became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society. [7] In the same year he received the inaugural Mary P. Dolciani Award for distinguished contributions to mathematical education,administered by the Mathematical Association of America, [8] and the AMS Distinguished Public Service Award of the American Mathematical Society,"for his energetic and effective efforts in promoting improvements to mathematics education" [4]