Jeremy Kilpatrick

Jeremy Kilpatrick was an American mathematics educator, born on September 21, 1935 in Fairfield, Iowa, and died September 17, 2022 in Athens, Georgia. He received the Felix Klein Medal for 2007 from ICMI. He graduated from Chaffey two-year college in California (1954), then he went to the University of California at Berkeley to earn an A.B degree (1956) in mathematics and after an M.A degree (1960) in education. He received his M.S. in mathematics in 1962 and his PhD degree in mathematics education in 1967, both from Stanford University, where he was also a research assistant in the SMSG (1962-1967). His dissertation was supervised by Edward Begle with George Pólya and Lee Conbrach in the doctoral committee, and addressed eight graders’ problem-solving heuristics. From 1967-1975 he taught from as an Assistant and later as an Associate Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York. In 1975, he moved to the University of Georgia, where he was a Professor of Mathematics Education.