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Amir Aczel was an Israeli-born American author of popular science and mathematics books. He was a lecturer in mathematics and history of mathematics. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley. Getting graduating with a BA in mathematics in 1975, received a Master of Science in 1976 and several years later accomplished his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Oregon. He died in Nîmes, France in 2015.
The Lives of the Great Mathematicians
2011
A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else
2003
1989
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
2005
2002
1996
A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
2015
Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
1999
Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
2000
The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider
2010
1998
2006
How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
2009
Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
2007
2000
The Invention That Changed the World
2001
The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
2009
2013