Amir D. Aczel (1950-2015) studied physics and mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley. He also held a Ph.D. in statistics. Aczel has written a dozen popular books about mathematics and physics, including the international bestseller Fermat's Last Theorem, as well as Mystery of the Aleph, Entanglement, and Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider. Aczel was a research fellow at the Center for the History of Science at Boston University and a Guggenheim Fellow.
How I Learned the Art of Math [Excerpt]
Mathematician Ken Ono describes how an inspiring mentor helped him redefine his relationship with numbers in this excerpt from his new book, written with mathematics writer Amir Aczel
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