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Mathematician

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)
  • In Service to Mathematics: The Life and Work of Mina Rees (Docent Press, 2011)
  • Mathematical Time Capsules: Historical Modules for the Mathematics Classroom (ed. with Dick Jardine, MAA Notes 77, Mathematical Association of America, 2010)
  • Hands on History: A Resource for Teaching Mathematics (ed., MAA Notes 72, Mathematical Association of America, 2007)
  • 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)

Her article "The Spirograph & mathematical models from 19th-century Germany" (Math. Horizons 2015) was selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016.

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. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Montgomery College in Maryland. She has also served as the archivist for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.

References

  1. Reviews of Algebra in Context:
  2. Reviews of In Service to Mathematics:
    • Gray, Jeremy (2012), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2883650{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Stenger, Allen (April 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
    • Keen, Linda (September–October 2012), "Review" (PDF), AWM Newsletter, 42 (5), archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-10-10, retrieved 2018-09-10
  3. Review of Mathematical Time Capsules:
    • Klyve, Dominic (August 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
  4. Reviews of Hands on History:
    • Arney, Chris (Spring 2008), "Review", Mathematics and Computer Education, 42 (2): 167–168
    • Nissen, Phillip (November 2008), The Mathematics Teacher, 102 (4): 319, JSTOR 20876355{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Allaire, Patricia R. (August 2009), Historia Mathematica, 36 (3): 291–292, doi:10.1016/j.hm.2009.01.003{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  5. Reviews of From Calculus to Computers:
  6. "Contents", The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016, De Gruyter, 2016, ISBN 9781400885602
  7. MR2700978
  8. Dr. Amy Shell-Gellasch to Give a Public Lecture at National Museum of Mathematics in New York City, Montgomery College, January 26, 2017, retrieved 2018-09-09
  9. Van Brummelen, Glen; Kinyon, Michael (2005), Mathematics and the historian's craft, CMS Books in Mathematics, vol. 21, New York: Springer, p. 3, doi:10.1007/0-387-28272-6, ISBN 978-0387-25284-1, MR 2156756
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