Deborah Kent
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Deborah Anne Kent (born 1978)[1] is an American mathematics educator, textbook author, historian of mathematics, and historian of astronomy, with particular interests in game theory, 19th-century mathematics, and historic observations of eclipses. She works in Scotland as Senior Lecturer in History of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews.[2]
Kent is originally from the Pacific Northwest.[3] After graduating magna cum laude from Hillsdale College, she completed her Ph.D. in 2005 at the University of Virginia.[4] Her dissertation, Benjamin Peirce and the Promotion of Research-Level Mathematics in America: 1830–1880, was supervised by Karen Parshall.[5]
She returned to Hillsdale College as an assistant professor, also becoming the first mathematical research fellow at the Massachusetts Historical Society.[6] After earning tenure at Drake University in Iowa, she moved to the University of St Andrews in 2020. She also serves as Librarian of the London Mathematical Society and a member of the council of the British Society for the History of Mathematics.[3]
She has been involved in the summer program Mathpath since 2019, where she presents a two week series of history plenaries and teaches additional classes. [7]
