Biography:Amy Shell-Gellasch
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Amy Shell-Gellasch is a mathematician, historian of mathematics, and book author. She has written or edited the books
- Algebra in Context: Introductory Algebra from Origins to Applications (with J. B. Thoo, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015)[1]
- In Service to Mathematics: The Life and Work of Mina Rees (Docent Press, 2011)[2]
- Mathematical Time Capsules: Historical Modules for the Mathematics Classroom (ed. with Dick Jardine, MAA Notes 77, Mathematical Association of America, 2010)[3]
- Hands on History: A Resource for Teaching Mathematics (ed., MAA Notes 72, Mathematical Association of America, 2007)[4]
- From Calculus to Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom (ed. with Dick Jardine, MAA Notes 68, Mathematical Association of America, 2005)[5]
Her article "The Spirograph & mathematical models from 19th-century Germany" (Math. Horizons 2015) was selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016.[6]
Shell-Gellasch earned a doctorate (D.A.) from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000, with a dissertation that became her book on Mina Rees.[7] She is an associate professor of mathematics at Montgomery College in Maryland.[8] She has also served as the archivist for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.[9]
References
- ↑ Reviews of Algebra in Context:
- Schulte, Tom (January 2016), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/algebra-in-context
- Baylis, John (February 2017), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 101 (550): 177–179, doi:10.1017/mag.2017.42
- Stewart, Cindia (January 2018), "none", Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 8 (1): 432–440, doi:10.5642/jhummath.201801.21
- ↑ Reviews of In Service to Mathematics:
- Gray, Jeremy (2012), "none", Mathematical Reviews
- Stenger, Allen (April 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/in-service-to-mathematics-the-life-and-work-of-mina-rees
- Keen, Linda (September–October 2012), "Review", AWM Newsletter 42 (5), https://www.gc.cuny.edu/CUNY_GC/media/CUNY-Graduate-Center/PDF/Mathematics/Review-linda-keen.pdf
- ↑ Review of Mathematical Time Capsules:
- Klyve, Dominic (August 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews, https://www.maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematical-time-capsules
- ↑ Reviews of Hands on History:
- Arney, Chris (Spring 2008), "Review", Mathematics and Computer Education 42 (2): 167–168, https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ed1d25df5dc8235a70b18f45e975687/1
- Nissen, Phillip (November 2008), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 102 (4): 319
- Allaire, Patricia R. (August 2009), "none", Historia Mathematica 36 (3): 291–292, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2009.01.003
- ↑ Reviews of From Calculus to Computers:
- Posamentier, Alfred S. (September 2006), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 100 (2): 157–158
- Katz, Victor J. (May 2007), "none", Historia Mathematica 34 (2): 236–238, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2006.07.002
- Bultheel, Adhemar (2008), "Review", Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society 15 (3): 569, https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~adhemar.bultheel/WWW/BMS/r267.php
- ↑ "Contents", The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016, De Gruyter, 2016, https://www.degruyter.com/dg/viewbooktoc/product/487105
- ↑ MR2700978
- ↑ Dr. Amy Shell-Gellasch to Give a Public Lecture at National Museum of Mathematics in New York City, Montgomery College, January 26, 2017, https://insidemc.montgomerycollege.edu/details.php?id=78631, retrieved 2018-09-09
- ↑ Van Brummelen, Glen; Kinyon, Michael (2005), Mathematics and the historian's craft, CMS Books in Mathematics, 21, New York: Springer, p. 3, doi:10.1007/0-387-28272-6, ISBN 978-0387-25284-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=UXlkxYTavxUC&pg=PA3
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