George Szpiro
George Geza Szpiro (born February 18, 1950 in Vienna ) is an Israeli - Swiss applied mathematician and journalist who has emerged as the author of popular scientific mathematical essays and books.
Life
Szpiro was born in Vienna, moved to Zug in 1961 and attended the Cantonal School in Zurich until he graduated from high school . He studied mathematics and physics at ETH Zurich , business administration at Stanford University and received his doctorate in mathematical economics from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1984 . He then went to the Hebrew University, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Zurich . He also worked as a management consultant at McKinsey in Zurich , Munich and London .
Since 1986, he was Israel - correspondent of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Jerusalem , in 2012 he became a correspondent for the NZZ to the US West Coast. Szpiro has been a science journalist for the NZZ since 1997. His regular monthly column ( Szpiros Little Times Tables ) on mathematics, which has been published since 2002 in the Sunday edition, was also published in two books. He also wrote a book each about the solution of the Kepler conjecture and the Poincaré conjecture .
As a scientist, he dealt with financial mathematics, risk theory, genetic algorithms and their use in predicting regularities in time series.
In 2003 he received the Media Prize of the Swiss Academy of Sciences and in 2006 he received the DMV Media Prize for his column.
Fonts
- The Poincaré adventure - a mathematical world puzzle is solved , Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 3492257259 (English original: Poincaré's Prize - the hundred years quest to solve one of mathematics greatest puzzles, New York, Dutton 2007), review of the English edition by Raymond Lickorish, Notices AMS 2008, PDF file
- Kepler's Conjecture - how some of the greatest minds in history helped solve one of the oldest math problems in the world, John Wiley 2003 , Review by Frank Morgan, Notices AMS 2005, PDF file
- The Secret Life of numbers - 50 easy pieces of how mathematicians work and think , Washington DC, Joseph Henry Press 2006
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Numbers Rule: The Vexing Mathematics of Democracy from Plato to the Present , Princeton University Press 2010, ISBN 978-0-691139944
- The darn mathematics of democracy , Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2011 ISBN 978-3-642-12890-5
- Mathematics for Sunday morning - 50 stories from mathematics and science, NZZ Libro 2005, Piper 2009, ISBN 3492251153 (English edition: Mathematics for Sunday morning)
- Mathematics for Sunday afternoon - 50 more stories from mathematics and science , NZZ Libro 2006, ISBN 9783038232254 , Piper 2009, ISBN 3492251161 (English edition: Mathematics for Sunday afternoon)
- Mathematical Cocktail - Rubik's Cube, the love of queues and other stories , NZZ Libro 2008, ISBN 3038234397
- A Mathematical Medley: Fifty Easy Pieces on Mathematics , AMS 2010
Web links
- Homepage of George G. Szpiro ( Memento from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- To receive the media prize of the DMV
- Portrait in the imprint of the NZZ ( Memento from April 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Articles about Sudokus
Individual evidence
- ↑ George Geza Szpiro on prabook.com
- ↑ Who's who in Finance and Industry 1998–1999 , 1997, p. 781 in Google Book Search
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Szpiro, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Szpiro, George Geza (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli-Swiss mathematician, journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |