Mathematics Education - Mathematics Teachers

Mathematics Teachers

The following people all taught mathematics at some stage in their lives, although they are better known for other things:

• Lewis Carroll, pen name of British author Charles Dodgson, lectured in mathematics at Christ Church, Oxford. As a mathematics educator, Dodgson defended the use of Euclid's Elements as a geometry textbook; Euclid and his Modern Rivals is a criticism of a reform movement in geometry education lead by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching.
• John Dalton, British chemist and physicist, taught mathematics at schools and colleges in Manchester, Oxford and York
• Tom Lehrer, American songwriter and satirist, taught mathematics at Harvard, MIT and currently at University of California, Santa Cruz
• Brian May, rock guitarist and composer, worked briefly as a mathematics teacher before joining Queen
• Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and disciple of Copernicus, taught mathematics at the University of Wittenberg
• Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury in the 13th century, lectured on mathematics at the universities of Oxford and Paris
• Éamon de Valera, a leader of Ireland's struggle for independence in the early 20th century and founder of the Fianna Fáil party, taught mathematics at schools and colleges in Dublin
• Archie Williams, American athlete and Olympic gold medalist, taught mathematics at high schools in California.