Instructor

William Carey is a classicist and a mathematician. He has taught at a classical high school since 2003 with a short sabbatical to work as a practicing mathematician and cartographer.
He has taught Latin, Logic, Rhetoric, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Mathematics from 7th to 12th grade. He’s also taught classics at the university level.

Formally trained as a classicist and self taught as a mathematician, he’s currently pursuing advanced study in mathematics while working with a group of likeminded friends and scholars to recover the Quadrivial arts, particularly arithmetic and geometry, for primary and secondary education.

William has written articles and given talks on the theme of mathematics as one of the humanities, arguing that everyone is a “math person”, and that a vibrant relationship with mathematics is part of what makes us fully human, just like a vibrant relationship with literature!

Read his blog series on the Classical Mathematical Canon on CiRCE https://circeinstitute.org/blog/author/williamcarey/