Eli Maor

Eli Maor (born October 4, 1937 ) is an Israeli author of popular science math books, math educator and math historian.

Maor received his PhD from the Technion . He teaches history of mathematics at Loyola University in Chicago . He lectures nationwide in the United States for the Mathematical Association of America . He wrote several popular science mathematics books on Euler's number e and its history, the Pythagorean theorem , trigonometry and the concept of infinity.

As an amateur astronomer, he has published articles in, for example, Sky and Telescope, and he also wrote a book on Venus Passages .

Fonts

• On the trail of the infinite , Birkhäuser 1989 (English edition: To Infinity and beyond , Birkhäuser 1987, Princeton University Press 1991, ISBN 978-0-691-02511-7 )
• The number e - history and stories , Birkhäuser 1996 (English edition: e: the story of a number , Princeton University Press 1994, ISBN 0-691-05854-7 )
• Trigonometric Delights , Princeton University Press 1998, ISBN 0-691-09541-8 , as an ebook
• Venus in Transit , Princeton University Press 2000, 2nd edition 2003, ISBN 0-691-04874-6
• The Pythagorean Theorem: a 4000 year history , Princeton University Press 2007, ISBN 978-0-691-12526-8
• The Facts on File Calculus Handbook , Facts on File 2003

Web links

• Biography at Princeton University Press