Glen Van Brummelen

Glen Van Brummelen

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 is currently working on the first history of trigonometry in over 100 years.

External links

* [http://tantalus.questu.ca/glen/index.html Bio at Quest's Website]
* [http://faculty.bennington.edu/~gvanbrum/ Homepage at Bennington College]
* [http://faculty.bennington.edu/~gvanbrum/publs.htm Publication list]
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