Glen Van Brummelen
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Glen Van Brummelen is a Canadian historian of mathematics specializing in historical applications of mathematics to astronomy.
Van Brummelen earned his PhD degree from Simon Fraser University in 1993, 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.
He is a former president of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and was a co-editor of Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures (Springer, 2005).
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. He is also currently working on the first book on spherical trigonometry in over 50 years.
[edit] External links
- Bio at Quest's Website
- Homepage at Bennington College
- Publication list
- Trigonometry Book page
- Glen Van Brummelen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
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