Howard Levi (November 9, 1916 – September 11, 2002) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in algebra and mathematical education.
[1] Levi was very active during the educational reforms in the United States, having proposed several new courses to replace the traditional ones.
[1] He earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University in 1942 as a student of Joseph Fels Ritt.
[5][6] Much of the Wesleyan material was based on his book Foundations of Geometry and Trigonometry.
[7] His book Polynomials, Power Series, and Calculus, written to be a textbook for a first course in calculus,[8] presented an innovative approach, and received favorable reviews by Leonard Gillman, who wrote "[...] this book, with its wealth of imaginative ideas, deserves to be better known.