Edward B. Burger

Edward B. Burger
Born	1964 (age 52–53)
Residence	Georgetown, Texas
Citizenship	United States
Fields	Mathematics Algebraic number theory Diophantine analysis p-adic analysis Geometry of numbers The theory of continued fractions
Institutions	Southwestern University Williams College Baylor University
Alma mater	Connecticut College The University of Texas at Austin

Edward Bruce Burger (born December 10, 1964) is a mathematician who is currently president of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Previously he was the Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, and the Robert Foster Cherry Professor for Great Teaching at Baylor University. He also had been named to a single-year-appointment as Vice Provost of Strategic Educational Initiatives at Baylor University in February 2011.

Burger has been honored as a leader in education and for his innovative work in developing educational and entertaining mathematics electronic textbooks. He has been a keynote speaker, invited special session speaker, or the conference chair at a number of American Mathematical Society, Mathematical Association of America, and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics conferences.

During the late 1980s Burger was featured at a stand-up comedy club in Austin, Texas and also was an 'independent contractor', writing for Jay Leno. Humor is an integral tool among his teaching methods. Today he has a weekly, lively program on higher education, thinking, and learning produced by NPR's Austin affiliate KUT. The series is aptly called Higher ED, and the episodes are also available on iTunes.

Graduated from Connecticut College in 1985, where he had earned B.A. Summa Cum Laude with Distinction in Mathematics, in 1990, he was awarded his Ph.D. in mathematics from The University of Texas at Austin, where his thesis advisor was Professor Jeffrey Vaaler. He did his postdoctoral work at the University of Waterloo in Canada.

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