Ivars Peterson

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Ivars Peterson (born 4 December 1948) is an award-winning mathematics writer. He is Director of Publications for Journals and Communications at the Mathematical Association of America.

He worked for 25 years as a columnist and online editor at Science News and continues as a longstanding columnist for the children's magazine Muse. He wrote the weekly online column Ivars Peterson’s MathTrek. He is the author of a number of popular mathematics and related books.

Ivars Peterson received the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics Communications Award in 1991 for "exceptional skill in communicating mathematics to the general public over the last decade".

For the spring 2008 semester, he accepted the Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Integration of the Arts, Rhetoric and Science at East Tennessee State University. He gave a series of lectures on how math is integral in our society and our universe. He also taught a course entitled "Communicating Mathematics".

Bibliography

Mathematical Treks: From Surreal Numbers to Magic Circles (2002) MAA ISBN 0-88385-537-2
The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari (1997) Wiley ISBN 0-471-16449-6
Newton's Clock: Chaos in the Solar System (1993) W.H.Freeman ISBN 0-7167-2724-2
Islands of Truth: Mathematical Mystery Cruise (1990) W.H.Freeman ISBN 0-7167-2148-1
The Mathematical Tourist: Snapshots of Modern Mathematics (1988) W.H.Freeman ISBN 0-8050-7159-8

References

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 79096345 LCCN: n87945408 ISNI: 0000 0001 0918 9514 GND: 172305888 BNF: cb12359396v

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Name	Peterson, Ivars
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Short description	Canadian mathematician
Date of birth	4 December 1948
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