Glen Van Brummelen

Biography

Glen Van Brummelen, mathematics tutor, is a historian of mathematics, especially trigonometry and astronomy in ancient Greece and medieval Islam. He was president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics (2000-2002; 2012-14), and governor-at-large for Canadian members of the Mathematical Association of America (2013-16). In addition to authoring 30 scholarly and 15 encyclopedia articles, he is co-editor of Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft (Springer); author of the first history of trigonometry in over a century with Princeton University Press called The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry; and recently published Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry, also with Princeton. In 2016, Glen won the Haimo award, the top teaching award for undergraduate mathematics in North America.

Research Interest

Trigonometry