Eli Maor

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.^[1] Maor was the editor of the article on trigonometry for the Encyclopædia Britannica.^[2]

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
Music by the Numbers. Princeton University Press. 2018. ISBN 9780691176901.

↑ Eli Maor biography at Princeton University Press
↑ Maor, Eli (2010). "Encyclopædia Britannica: Author". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 August 2010. (subscription required)

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