Joseph Mazur is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at Marlboro College, and the author of four popular mathematics books, includingEuclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math, which was a finalist for the PEmerica Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction;The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space;What’s Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology or the Gambler’s Illusion; and the forthcomingEnlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers. He is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Rockefeller Foundation residency, and two Bogliasco Foundation Fellowships. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Nature,Science and Spirit, and The Mind’s Eye. Mazur lives in Marlboro, Vermont.
