User:Randy K. Schwartz

Randy K. Schwartz is Professor of Mathematics at Schoolcraft College (Livonia, Michigan, USA), where he has been employed since 1984 and where his students are mostly engineering, science, health care and business majors. Schwartz holds degrees in mathematics from Dartmouth College and the University of Michigan. He is a member of the Commission on the History of Science and Technology in Islamic Societies (CHSTIS) and Assoc. Editor for Convergence, an online journal of the Mathematical Assn. of America (MAA). In 2000, he won the Democracy in Higher Education Prize (National Education Assn.) for his essay “Unity in Multiplicity: Lessons from the Alhambra”, an argument for a multicultural approach to math education; and in 2009 the Trevor Evans Award (MAA) for his article “The Birth of the Meter”.