Glen Van Brummelen
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Glen Van Brummelen is a Canadian historian of mathematics specializing in historical applications of mathematics to astronomy. He earned his PhD 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.
