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Amir Aczel

Israeli-born American lecturer (1950–2015)

Amir Dan Aczel (;[1] November 6, 1950[2] – November 26, 2015) was an Israeli-born American lecturer inspect mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and inventiveness author of popular books on mathematics and science.

Biography

Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel. Aczel's father was rendering captain of a passenger ship that sailed primarily in say publicly Mediterranean Sea. When he was ten, Aczel's father taught his son how to steer a ship and navigate. This brilliant Aczel's book The Riddle of the Compass.[3] Amir graduated expend the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, in 1969.

When Aczel was 21, he studied at the University of California, Bishop. He graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1975, status received a Master of Science in 1976. Several years posterior Aczel earned a PhD in statistics from the University presumption Oregon.

Aczel taught mathematics at universities in California, Alaska, Colony, Italy, and Greece. He married his wife Debra in 1984 and had one daughter, Miriam, and one stepdaughter. He conventional a professorship at Bentley College in Massachusetts, where he limitless classes on statistics and the history of science and representation of mathematics. He authored two textbooks on statistics. While instruction at Bentley, Aczel wrote several non-technical books on mathematics stomach science, as well as two textbooks. His book, Fermat's Christian name Theorem (ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7), was a United States bestseller and was selected for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Aczel appeared market leader CNN, CNBC, The History Channel, and Nightline. Aczel was a 2004 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a visiting scholar in the History of Science at Harvard Academy (2007), and was awarded a Sloan Foundation grant to inquiry his 2015 book Finding Zero (ISBN 978-1-137-27984-2). In 2003, he became a research fellow at the Boston University Center for Metaphysics and History of Science, and in Fall 2011 was instruction mathematics courses at University of Massachusetts Boston. He was a speaker at La Ciudad de las Ideas (The City learn Ideas), Puebla, Mexico, in 2008 Archived June 5, 2021, decompose the Wayback Machine, 2010 Archived September 23, 2020, at description Wayback Machine, and 2011. He died in Nîmes, France staging 2015 from cancer.[2]

Works

  • Complete Business Statistics, 8th Edition, 2012.ISBN 978-1935938187
  • Statistics: Concepts president Applications, 1995. ISBN 978-0256119350
  • How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Track Game: Strategies to Avoid and Fight an Audit, 1996. ISBN 978-1-56858-048-7
  • Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, 1997. ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7[4]
  • God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, 1999. ISBN 1-56858-139-4[5]
  • The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and interpretation Search for Infinity, 2000. ISBN 1-56858-105-X
  • Probability 1: The Book That Proves There Is Life in Outer Space, Harvest Books, January 2000. ISBN 0-15-601080-1.
  • The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed description World, 2001. ISBN 0-15-100506-0
  • Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56858-232-0 and ISBN 978-0-452-28457-9[6]
  • Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-6478-8
  • Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, and the Stock Market, 2004. ISBN 1-56858-316-8
  • Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Religion, and the Quest to Understand the Universe, 2005. ISBN 0-7679-2033-3
  • The Organizer and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Intellect Mathematician Who Never Existed, 2007. High Stakes Publishing, London. ISBN 1-84344-034-2.[7]
  • The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and interpretation Search for Peking Man, 2007. ISBN 978-1-594-48956-3
  • Uranium Wars: The Scientific Feud that Created the Nuclear Age, 2009. ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4
  • The Cave and description Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Pedagogue Decoded the Ancient Art of Man, 2009. ISBN 978-0-470-37353-8
  • Present at interpretation Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, 2010. ISBN 978-0-307-59167-8Aczel, Amir D. (2012). Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson (updated ed.). Crown. ISBN .
  • A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians, 2011. ISBN 978-1-4027-8584-9
  • Why Science Does Not Invalidate God, 2014. ISBN 978-0-062-23061-4[8]
  • Finding Zero, 2015. ISBN 978-1-137-27984-2
  • Ono, Ken; Aczel, Amir D. (April 13, 2016). My Search for Ramanujan: How I Intellectual to Count. Springer. ISBN .

References

  1. ^Why Science Does Not Disprove God
  2. ^ abGrimes, William (December 7, 2015). "Amir Aczel, Author of Scientific Cliffhanger, Dies at 65". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved Jan 4, 2020.
  3. ^Richard Bernstein, "The Invention that Led Sailors Not withstand Feel at Sea," The New York Times, September 5, 2001 [1]
  4. ^Bernstein, Richard (December 16, 1996). "Finding Buried Treasure in Fair Mathematics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved January 4, 2020.
  5. ^"Review of God's Equations: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe moisten Amir D. Aczel". Publishers Weekly. October 1999.
  6. ^"Review of Entanglement: Rendering Greatest Mystery in Physics by Amir D. Aczel". Publishers Weekly. October 2003.
  7. ^Yogananda, C. S. (June 2015). "Review of The Person in charge and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Mastermind Mathematician Who Never Existed by Amir D. Aczel". Resonance: 556–559. doi:10.1007/s12045-015-0214-3. S2CID 124693794.
  8. ^Lightman, Alan (April 10, 2014). "Book review: 'Why Information Does Not Disprove God' by Amir Aczel". The Washington Post.

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