Amy Shell-Gellasch

Amy Shell-Gellasch is a mathematician, historian of mathematics, and book author. She has written or edited the books

Algebra in Context: Introductory Algebra from Origins to Applications
In Service to Mathematics: The Life and Work of Mina Rees
Mathematical Time Capsules: Historical Modules for the Mathematics Classroom
Hands on History: A Resource for Teaching Mathematics
From Calculus to Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom

Her article "The Spirograph & mathematical models from 19th-century Germany" was selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2016.
Shell-Gellasch earned a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2000, with a dissertation that became her book on Mina Rees.
She is an associate professor of mathematics at Montgomery College in Maryland.
She has also served as the archivist for the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics.