Eli Maor (born 4 October 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 .

Eli Maor teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola University in Chicago. He is the author of Venus in Transit, Trigonometric Delights, e: The Story of a Number, and To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (all Princeton).

Eli Maor examines the role of infinity, as well as its cultural impact on the arts and sciences. He evokes the profound intellectual impact the infinite has... The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e.

2015年9月22日 · In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie behind the number. Designed for a reader with only a modest mathematical background, this biography brings out the central importance of e to mathematics and illuminates a golden era in the age of science.

Contributor of articles to Orion and Sky & Telescope. A longtime mathematician, Eli Maor has taught college mathematics in Israel and the United States and has done much to bring the complexities of higher mathematics to a popular audience through his writings.

2010年8月15日 · In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier.

2013年2月24日 · In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cosine, and their trigonometric relatives, he brings the subject to life in a compelling blend of …

Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Loyola University, Chicago Illinois. Author of June 8, 2004: Venus in Transit; Trigonometric Delights and others. Trigonometry, the branch of mathematics concerned with specific functions of angles and their application to calculations. There are six functions of an angle commonly used in trigonometry.

1993年1月1日 · Eli Maor's e: The Story of a Number is a history of the irrational and transcendental number e. An irrational number defies representation as a fraction of two whole numbers. A transcendental number eludes expression as the solution to any polynomial with whole-number coefficients.

2020年2月22日 · With artwork by Swiss artist Eugen Jost and text by acclaimed math historian Eli Maor, this unique celebration of geometry covers numerous subjects, from straightedge-and-compass constructions to intriguing configurations involving infinity.