Ivars Peterson

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Ivars Peterson (born December 4, 1948 ) is a Canadian journalist who has emerged from popular articles and books on mathematics and science.

Peterson studied physics, chemistry and education at the University of Toronto ( Bachelor termination) and then taught for eight years schools before 1980 have a MasterCard Accounts in journalism at the University of Missouri in Columbia made. He wrote for the weekly US science magazine Science News in Washington, DC for over 25 years and is best known for an online weekly column by Ivars Peterson's Math Trek . He is currently the Director of Publications and Communications for the Mathematical Association of America . He lives in Washington DC

He is known for several popular science math books, some of which arose from his columns. For over 10 years he wrote a math column in the popular science magazine for young people Muse . In 1991 he received the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award , which is awarded by the MAA and the American Mathematical Society for popularizing mathematics, among others .

Fonts

  • Mathematical Expeditions - a foray through modern mathematics, Spektrum 1992, 1998 (English original: The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics, WH Freeman 1988, 1998)
  • Islands of Truth: A Mathematical Mystery Cruise, WH Freeman, 1990
  • What Newton did not know: Chaos in the Solar System, Birkhäuser 1999, Insel 1997 (English original: Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System, WH Freeman, 1993)
  • Fatal Defect: Chasing Killer Computer Bugs, Times Books, 1995
  • The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari, Wiley, 1998
  • Fragments of Infinity: A Kaleidoscope of Math and Art, Wiley, 2001
  • Mathematical Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles, Mathematical Association of America, 2002

With his wife, Nancy Henderson, he wrote two math books for children:

  • Math Trek: Adventures in the MathZone, Wiley, 2000
  • Math Trek 2: A Mathematical Space Odyssey, Wiley, 2001

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Currently (2009) written by Julie Rehmeyer
  2. ↑ Joint Policy Borad for Mathematics Communications Award
personal data
SURNAME Peterson, Ivars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1948