Mathematician:Stephen Barr

Mathematician

American freelance writer who turned his hand to mathematics, mainly recreational and topological.

Friend of Martin Gardner.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: December 1904 in Uxbridge, UK
• Died: 1989 in Woodstock, NY

Publications

• 1964: Experiments in Topology

• 1965: A Miscellany of Puzzles: Mathematical and Otherwise
  • 1994: Republished as Intriguing Puzzles in Math and Logic

• 1969: Second Miscellany of Puzzles: Mathematical and Otherwise
  • 1982: Republished as Mathematical Brain Benders