V. Frederick Rickey, a logician turned historian, became Professor
of Mathematics at the United States
Military Academy, West Point, NY in the summer of 1998. After earning
three degrees from the University of Notre Dame (Ph.D. 1968) he went to
Bowling Green State University
where he rose through the professorial ranks to the rank of Distinguished
Teaching Professor Emeritus. He has broad interests in the history
of mathematics and is especially interested in the development of the calculus.
He has been on leave five times, most recently in Washington D. C. where he was Visiting Mathematician at the MAA Headquarters. While there he was involved in the founding of Math Horizons, a magazine for mathematics undergraduates; became the first editor of electronic services for the MAA and built its first gopher and web pages; and wrote a successful NSF grant for an Institute for the History of Mathematics and Its Use in Teaching.
He loves teaching and enjoys giving lectures to mathematicians about
the history of their field. He received the first award from the Ohio Section
for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics, and one
of the first MAA National
Awards for teaching.