Amir Aczel
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Amir D. Aczel (born November 6, 1950) is an acclaimed pop-technical and science author of numerous books, some of which have been national and international bestsellers.
[edit] Biography
Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel. Aczel's father was the captain of a passenger ship that sailed primarilly in the Mediterranean Sea. When he was ten, Aczel's father taught his son how to steer a ship and navigate. This inspired Aczel's book The Riddle of the Compass.
When Aczel was 21 he studied at the University of California, Berkeley. He graduated with a BA in mathematics in 1975, and received a Master of Science in 1976. Several years later Aczel earned a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Oregon.
Aczel taught mathematics at universities in California, Alaska, Italy, and Greece. He married in 1984 and has one daughter. He accepted a professorship at Bentley College in Massachusetts where he taught classes on the history of science and the history of mathematics. While he taught at Bentley, Aczel also found time to write several non-technical books on mathematics and science, as well as two textbooks. Amir D. Aczel's book, Fermat's Last Theorem, was a national bestseller and was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Aczel has appeared on CNN, CNBC and Nightline. Aczel was a 2004 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
[edit] Partial List of Amir Aczel's Books
- Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery of Physics (ISBN 978-0-452-28457-9)
- The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, Kabbalah and the Search for Infinity
- Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem (ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7)
- Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love and the Stock Market
- The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
- Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Modern Science
- God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity and the Expanding Universe
- Descartes' Secret Notebook
- Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe
- The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicholas Bourbaki
