Glen Van Brummelen
Glen Robert Van Brummelen (* 1965 ) is a Canadian mathematician.
Van Brummelen received his PhD in 1993 from Lennart Berggren at Simon Fraser University (Mathematical Tables in Ptolemy's Almagest). He was a mathematics professor at Bennington College in Vermont from 1999 to 2006 and then professor at the then newly founded private Quest University Canada .
He was a Senior Fellow at the Dibner Institute for History of Science at MIT.
Van Brummelen deals with the history of trigonometry in ancient times and in medieval Islam in the context of astronomy.
He was President of the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Mathematics from 2012 to 2014.
Fonts
- Editor with Michael Kinyon: Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures, Springer Verlag 2005
- The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry, Princeton University Press 2009
- Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry, Princeton University Press 2013
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ as stated in the catalog of the Library and Archives Canada
- ↑ Glen Van Brummelen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Brummelen, Glen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Brummelen, Glen Robert (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |