Vincent Frederick Rickey (born 17 December 1941) is an American logician and historian of mathematics.
[3] He joined the academic staff of Ohio's Bowling Green State University in 1968, became there a full professor in 1979,[4] and retired there in 1998.
He was then a mathematics professor at the United States Military Academy from 1998 until his retirement in 2011.
[4] He was a Visiting Mathematician (1994–1995) at the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) headquarters in Washington, D.C., and while on this sabbatical he was involved in the founding of the undergraduate magazine Math Horizons.
In 1993 he received the Deborah and Franklin Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics;[7] he has also received the first statewide Distinguished Teaching Award from the Ohio section of the MAA, the Kappa Mu Epsilon honorary society award for Excellence in Teaching Mathematics (in 1991, 1988, 1975, and 1971), and the Outstanding Civilian Service Medal from the Department of the Army in 1990 for performance while serving as the visiting professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy.