Edward Bruce Burger (born December 10, 1964)[1][2] is an American mathematician and President Emeritus of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
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.
[12] Burger is a pioneer in rich, multimedia Internet lectures that, together with written material, form an electronic textbook.
[13] Together with Thinkwell, Burger "crafted the first-ever virtual, CD-ROM video, interactive, mathematics texts/courses"[14] published over the World Wide Web.
Additionally, his lesson tutorial videos earned publisher Holt, Rinehart and Winston one of the 2007 Awards of Excellence[15] from Technology & Learning, an academic publication.
[19] With Michael Starbird, he coauthored The Heart of Mathematics: An invitation to effective thinking, for which they won a 2001 Robert W. Hamilton Book Award, and Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz,, a humorous look at mathematics filed under both math and humor in the Library of Congress catalog.
[18] Burger is also an associate editor for the American Mathematical Monthly and a member of the editorial board for [AK Peters Publishing].