Sol Garfunkel

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Solomon "Sol" Garfunkel (born 1943) is a mathematician who has focused his career on mathematics education. He is perhaps most famous for his mathematical television series For All Practical Purposes. One of his other series is Algebra in Simplest Terms. What critics have admired about his television series is how it introduces cutting edge contemporary mathematics such as the work of 20th century pioneers like Kurt Godel, Kenneth Arrow and Robert Axelrod to ordinary audiences in an interesting manner.

Garfunkel received his PhD in mathematical logic from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1967, where he worked with H. Jerome Keisler, Michael D. Morley, and Stephen Kleene. Since 1980, Garfunkel has served as the executive director of the non-profit organization the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP). He has no relation to singer Art Garfunkel .