Books by Amir Alexander and Complete Book Reviews
Amir Alexander, Author Harvard University Press $28.95 (307p) ISBN 978-0-674-04661-0
With tremendous attention to detail, historian Alexander examines the lives of 18th and 19th century mathematicians, finding much evidence to support his theory that the earlier geniuses of math (like Évariste Galois and Neils Henrik Abel)...
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Amir Alexander. FSG/Scientific American, $27 (352p) ISBN 978-0-374-17681-5
UCLA historian and mathematician Alexander (Geometrical Landscapes) gives readers insight into a real-world Da Vinci Code–like intrigue with this look at the history of a simple, yet pivotal, mathematical concept. According to classic geometry, a...
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Amir Alexander. Scientific American, $28 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-90666-5
The tenets of Euclidean geometry and artistry of formal garden design become keystones shaping modernity in the latest exploration by historian Alexander (Infinitesimal) of math’s influence on history. For the ancient Greeks, Alexander writes,...
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Amir Alexander. Univ. of Chicago, $30 (304p) ISBN 978-0-226-82072-9
UCLA math historian Alexander (Proof!) sets forth an enthralling exploration of the intellectual battles and ideological motives that led much of America to be arranged along precise mathematical grids. Tracing the origins of the “graph-paper...
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