William Wade Dunham (born 1947) is an American writer who was originally trained in topology but became interested in the history of mathematics and specializes in Leonhard Euler.
He has received several awards for writing and teaching on this subject.
[1] Dunham received his BS from the University of Pittsburgh in 1969, his MS from Ohio State in 1970, and his PhD from the same institution in 1974.
[2] Dunham won the American Association of Publishers' award for writing the Best Mathematics Book of 1994 for his book The Mathematical Universe.
[3][4] He received a Lester R. Ford Award in 2006 for his expository article Touring the Calculus,[5] and the Chauvenet Prize in 2022 for his article The Early (and Peculiar) History of the Möbius Function.