Web edition: November 4, 2011
Print edition: November 19, 2011; Vol.180 #11 (p. 30)
Interviews reveal people who have shaped mathematics, like “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin and Harold Bacon, who taught calculus to an Alcatraz prisoner.
Princeton Univ. Press, 2011, 328 p., $35
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