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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …