
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
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.
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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