Mathematician:James Roy Newman
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Mathematician
American mathematician and historian of mathematics best known for his writings and popularisations.
Nationality
American
History
- Born: 3 August 1907 in New York, New York, United States
- Died: 28 May 1966 in Washington, D.C., United States
Publications
- 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: The World of Mathematics (4 volumes)
- 1958: Gödel's Proof (with Ernest Nagel)
- 1961: Science and Sensibility
- 1962: The Rule of Folly
- 1963: The Harper Encyclopedia of Science