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Eli Maor

Eli Maor is an Israeli mathematician and historian of mathematics known for his books on mathematics and its history written for general readers.

born 1937Popular books on mathematics historyTeaching at Loyola University ChicagoBritannica trigonometry article editor

Born: 4 October 1937, Israel
Occupation: mathematician, historian of mathematics, university teacher, non-fiction writer
Education: Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Eli Maor was born in 1937 in Israel

Eli Maor was born in Israel on 4 October 1937.

He earned a BS at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He then completed a PhD at the Technion on musical acoustics, supervised by Franz Ollendorff, finishing in 1969.

Maor taught mathematics at the University of the Negev and the University of Wisconsin. From 1995 he taught the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago. He edited the trigonometry article for the Encyclopædia Britannica.

He wrote several books on the history of mathematics, all published by Princeton University Press. An amateur astronomer, he also wrote for Sky & Telescope and Science. Asteroid 226861 Elimaor, found in 2004, was named after him, with the citation published in 2013.