About Dr. William Dunham
Dr. William Dunham is the Truman Koehler Professor of Mathematics at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh. He later completed his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mathematics at The Ohio State University.
Teaching Career
Before joining Muhlenberg College, Dr. Dunham taught at Hanover College in Indiana. He received teaching awards from both schools. He also received the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching from the Eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware Section of the Mathematical Association of America.
Dr. Dunham has served as a Visiting Professor at Ohio State and at Harvard University. While at Harvard, he taught an undergraduate course on the work of Leonhard Euler. He also delivered the Clay Public Lecture in 2008.
Publications and Research
His work on teaching through great theorems grew from a 1983 summer grant from the Lilly Endowment. This grant helped him write his first book, Journey Through Genius: The Great Theorems of Mathematics. The book was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection and has been translated into five languages.
He later wrote other books and articles on mathematics and its history. His writing earned him several awards from the Mathematical Association of America and other groups.
Talks and Media
Dr. Dunham has given many public talks on mathematics across the United States. He has also appeared on the BBC and on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday.
