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Name
  
Eli Maor

Role
  
Author


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Occupation
  
Historian of mathematics

Education
  
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Books
  
"e": The Story of a Number, Trigonometric Delights, To Infinity and Beyond, The Pythagorean Theorem, Beautiful Geometry

Employer
  
Loyola University Chicago

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Eli Maor, an Israel-born historian of mathematics, is the author of several books about the history of mathematics. Eli Maor received his PhD at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. Maor was the editor of the article on trigonometry for the Encyclopædia Britannica.

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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

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