Mathematician:James Roy Newman

American mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his writings and popularisations.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 1907
 * Died: 1966

Books and Papers

 * 1940: Mathematics and the Imagination (with Edward Kasner) (in which the terms googol and googolplex were first coined)
 * 1942: The Tools of War
 * 1948: The Control of Atomic Energy
 * 1955: What is Science
 * 1956: (4 volumes)
 * 1958: Gödel's Proof (with Ernest Nagel)
 * 1961: Science and Sensibility
 * 1962: The Rule of Folly
 * 1963: The Harper Encyclopedia of Science