Amir Aczel

May 3, 2025

Born: November 6, 1950, Haifa, Israel.

Died: November 26, 2015, Nîmes, France.

Higher Education: BA in Mathematics and Master of Science at University of California, Berkeley (Oakland, California, United States of America) and PhD in Statistics at University of Oregon (Eugene, Oregon, United States of America).

Main Publications:

Complete Business Statistics, 8th Edition, 2012
Statistics: Concepts and Applications, 1995
How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid and Fight an Audit, 1996
Fermat’s Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem, 1997
God’s Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe, 1999
The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity, 2000
Probability 1: The Book That Proves There Is Life In Outer Space, Harvest Books, January 2000
The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World, 2001
Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics, 2002
Pendulum: Léon Foucault and the Triumph of Science, 2003
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, and the Stock Market, 2004
Descartes’ Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe, 2005
The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed, 2007
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man, 2007
Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age, 2009
The Cave and the Cathedral: How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man, 2009
Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider, 2010. Present at the Creation: Discovering the Higgs Boson (updated ed.). 2012
A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians, 2011
Why Science Does Not Disprove God, 2014
Finding Zero, 2015
Ono, Ken; Aczel, Amir D.. My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count, 2016.