Szpiro, George G. 1950-

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Szpiro, George G. 1950-

PERSONAL:

Born February 18, 1950, in Vienna, Austria; married October 22, 1979; wife's name Fortunee (a sculptor); children: Sarit, Noam, Noga.Education: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, M.Sc., 1972; Stanford University, M.B.A., 1975;Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ph.D., 1984.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—Edward Knappman, New EnglandPublishing Associates, P.O. Box 5, Chester, CT 06412. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Writer and mathematician. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, assistant professor at Wharton School, 1984-86; Neue Zürcher Zeitung(Swiss newspaper), political correspondent and mathematics columnist, 1987—. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, lecturer, 1986-92.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Prix Media, Swiss Academy of Sciences, 2004, for his mathematics column.

WRITINGS:


Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World, John Wiley (Hoboken, NJ), 2003.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

The Secret Life of Numbers,for Joseph Henry Press.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:


PERIODICALS


M2 Best Books, August 18, 2003, review of Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World.

Science, August 29, 2003, Doron Zeilberger, review ofKepler's Conjecture, p. 1186.