Misseri-calendar - Acknowledgements and About the Author

Acknowledgements

The author wishes to thank the editors of Convergence, Janet Heine Barnett in particular, and the referees, for invaluable assistance in improving this article. She also wishes to thank Th. Vilhjálmsson, Professor Emeritus, University of Iceland, for allowing the use of the photograph in Figure 1, and Dr. George W. Heine III, for creating the diagrams in Figure 2.

About the Author

Kristín Bjarnadóttir is professor emerita in mathematics education at the University of Iceland. Her research interests include the history of mathematics education as well as mathematics curricula and instruction at the secondary school level. She enjoys hiking together with old friends from Girl Scouting and Boy Scouting.