Israeli-born American lecturer (1950–2015)
Amir Dan Aczel (/ɑː ˈ m ɪər ɑː k ˈ s ɛ l [ 1] [ 2] history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science.
Amir D. Aczel was born inHaifa, Israel . Aczel's father was the captain of a passenger ship that sailed primarily in theMediterranean Sea . When he was ten, Aczel's father taught his son how to steer a ship andnavigate . This inspired Aczel's bookThe Riddle of the Compass .[ 3] Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, in 1969.
When Aczel was 21, he studied at theUniversity of California, Berkeley . He graduated with aBA in mathematics in 1975, and received a Master of Science in 1976. Several years later Aczel earned a PhD in statistics from theUniversity of Oregon .
Aczel taught mathematics at universities in California,Alaska ,Massachusetts , Italy, andGreece . He married his wife Debra in 1984 and had one daughter, Miriam, and one stepdaughter. He accepted a professorship atBentley College inMassachusetts , where he taught classes on statistics and thehistory of science andhistory of mathematics . He authored two textbooks on statistics. While teaching at Bentley, Aczel wrote several non-technical books on mathematics and science, as well as two textbooks. His book,Fermat's Last Theorem (ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7 ), was a United States bestseller and was nominated for aLos Angeles Times Book Prize . Aczel appeared onCNN ,CNBC ,The History Channel , andNightline . Aczel was a 2004 Fellow of theJohn Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation , a visiting scholar in the History of Science atHarvard University (2007), and was awarded a Sloan Foundation grant to research his 2015 bookFinding Zero (ISBN 978-1-137-27984-2 ). In 2003, he became a research fellow at theBoston University Center for Philosophy and History of Science , and in Fall 2011 was teaching mathematics courses atUniversity of Massachusetts Boston . He was a speaker atLa Ciudad de las Ideas (The City of Ideas), Puebla, Mexico, in 2008Archived June 5, 2021, at theWayback Machine , 2010Archived September 23, 2020, at theWayback Machine , and 2011. He died in Nîmes, France in 2015 from cancer.[ 2]
Complete BusinessStatistics , 8th Edition, 2012. ISBN 978-1935938187 Statistics: Concepts and Applications, 1995 .ISBN 978-0256119350 How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid and Fight an Audit , 1996.ISBN 978-1-56858-048-7 Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem , 1997.ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7 [ 4] God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe , 1999.ISBN 1-56858-139-4 [ 5] The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity , 2000.ISBN 1-56858-105-X Probability 1: The Book That Proves There Is Life in Outer Space ,Harvest Books , January 2000.ISBN 0-15-601080-1 .The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World , 2001.ISBN 0-15-100506-0 Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics , 2002.ISBN 978-1-56858-232-0 andISBN 978-0-452-28457-9 [ 6] Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science , 2003.ISBN 0-7434-6478-8 Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, and the Stock Market , 2004.ISBN 1-56858-316-8 Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe , 2005.ISBN 0-7679-2033-3 The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed , 2007.High Stakes Publishing , London.ISBN 1-84344-034-2 .[ 7] The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man , 2007.ISBN 978-1-594-48956-3 Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age , 2009.ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4 The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man , 2009.ISBN 978-0-470-37353-8 Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider , 2010.ISBN 978-0-307-59167-8 Aczel, Amir D. (2012).Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson ISBN 9780307591821 A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians , 2011.ISBN 978-1-4027-8584-9 Why Science Does Not Disprove God , 2014.ISBN 978-0-062-23061-4 [ 8] Finding Zero , 2015.ISBN 978-1-137-27984-2 Ono, Ken ;Aczel, Amir D. (April 13, 2016).My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count .Springer .ISBN 978-3319255668 ^ Why Science Does Not Disprove God ^a b Grimes, William (December 7, 2015)."Amir Aczel, Author of Scientific Cliffhanger, Dies at 65" .The New York Times .ISSN 0362-4331 . RetrievedJanuary 4, 2020 . ^ Richard Bernstein, "The Invention that Led Sailors Not to Feel at Sea," The New York Times, September 5, 2001[1] ^ Bernstein, Richard (December 16, 1996)."Finding Buried Treasure in Beautiful Mathematics" .The New York Times .ISSN 0362-4331 . RetrievedJanuary 4, 2020 . ^ "Review ofGod's Equations: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe by Amir D. Aczel" .Publishers Weekly . October 1999.^ "Review ofEntanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics by Amir D. Aczel" .Publishers Weekly . October 2003.^ Yogananda, C. S. (June 2015)."Review ofThe Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed by Amir D. Aczel" .Resonance :556– 559.doi :10.1007/s12045-015-0214-3 .S2CID 124693794 . ^ Lightman, Alan (April 10, 2014)."Book review: 'Why Science Does Not Disprove God' by Amir Aczel" .The Washington Post .
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