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Constance Bowman Reid is the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics.

She is the sister of Julia Robinson

Publications


  • From zero to infinity. What makes numbers interesting. Fifth edition. Fiftieth anniversary edition. A K Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA, 2006. xviii+188 pp. ISBN 978-1-56881-273-1
  • A long way from Euclid. Reprint of the 1963 original. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY, 2004. ISBN 0-486-43613-6
  • Courant in Göttingen and New York. The story of an improbable mathematician. Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1976. ISBN 0-387-90194-9 Reprint of the 1976 original: Copernicus, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-387-94670-5
  • Neyman. Reprint of the 1982 original. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98357-0
  • Hilbert. Reprint of the 1970 original. Copernicus, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-387-94674-8
  • Julia. A life in mathematics. MAA Spectrum. Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1996. ISBN 0-88385-520-8
  • The Search for E. T. Bell : Also Known as John Taine ISBN 0883855089
  • Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory (autobiography) ISBN 156098368X

References


  • Author's Note, from the 4th Edition of From Zero to Infinity, 1992
  • Being Julia Robinson's Sister, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 1996, 1486-1492.
  • Interview, Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Albers and Alexanderson, Birkhauser, 1985, 270-280.

Biographies and autobiographies of mathematicians American mathematicians

 

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