Eli Maor (born 1937) is a mathematician and historian of mathematics , best known for several books about mathematics and its history written for a popular audience.[ 1] Eli Maor received his PhD at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology . He taught history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago .[ 2] Maor was the editor of the article on trigonometry for the Encyclopædia Britannica .[ 3]
Asteroid 226861 Elimaor , discovered at the Jarnac Observatory in 2004, was named in his honor.[ 1] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 22 July 2013 (M.P.C. 84383 ).[ 4]
Selected works
To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite , 1991, Princeton University Press . ISBN 978-0-691-02511-7
e:The story of a Number , by Eli Maor, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey) (1994) ISBN 0-691-05854-7
Venus in Transit , 2000, Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-04874-6
Trigonometric Delights , Princeton University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-691-09541-8 . Ebook version, in PDF format, full text presented.
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History , 2007, Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-12526-8
The Facts on File Calculus Handbook (Facts on File, 2003), 2005, Checkmark Books, an encyclopedia of calculus concepts geared for high school and college students
Music by the Numbers . Princeton University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780691176901 .
References
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