Quantcast
issue
Read articles, including Science News stories written for ages 9-14, on the SNK website.
Fascinating Mathematical People: Interviews and Memoirs, Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson, eds.

Buy this book

A+ A- Text Size

By Science News Staff

Web edition: November 4, 2011
Print edition: November 19, 2011; Vol.180 #11 (p. 30)

Enlarge


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

Comment
Print Friendly and PDF

Follow Us