Victor J Katz
Victor J. Katz is Professor of Mathematics emeritus at the University of the District of Columbia. He has long been interested in the history of mathematics and its use in teaching. The third edition of his well-regarded textbook, A History of Mathematics: An Introduction, appeared in 2008. Katz is also the editor of The Mathematics of Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, India and Islam: A Sourcebook, published in 2007.
Professor Katz has written and spoken extensively on the history of mathematics and its use in teaching. He has edited three books dealing with this subject as well as two collections of historical articles taken from journals of the Mathematical Association of America in the past 90 years.
He has directed two NSF-sponsored projects to help college teachers learn the history of mathematics and its use in teaching and also involved secondary school teachers in writing materials demonstrating this use in the high school curriculum. These materials, Historical Modules for the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics, were published on a CD in 2005.
Professor Katz was the founding editor of Loci:Convergence, the MAA’s online magazine in the history of mathematics and its use in teaching.
Source: Department of Mathematics University of Hawaii at Manoa
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