Eli Maor

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

Maor received his doctorate at the Technion. He teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola University in Chicago. He holds in the U.S. nationwide lectures on behalf of the Mathematical Association of America. He wrote several popular science books on mathematics, the Euler number e and its history, the Pythagorean Theorem, trigonometry, and the concept of infinity.

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

Writings

  • Infinity on the track, Birkhauser, 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, Birkhauser 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 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
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