M. B. W. Tent
M. B. W. Tent is an American mathematics educator and writer. She is the author of several bestselling books.
Life
Tent is originally a native of Massachusetts [1] She currently works as a teacher at Altamont high school in Birmingham, Alabama.[2][3]
Career
Tent attended Amherst regional school[4] and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.[5] She received her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.[6]
She has been teaching and writing about mathematics for many years.[7]
Critical reception
Most of her books have received good reviews from organizations such as the Mathematical Association of America, Association for Computing Machinery and Goodreads.[8][9][10]
Her books have received hundreds of citations in the academic press.[11]
Her books have also received praise from other authors and mathematicians like William Dunham, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Charles Ashbacher and Peter M. Neumann.[12][13]
Bibliography
Some of her best known works are:[14][15]
- The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus
- Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis: Mathematicians from Basel
References
- ↑ http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1238610
- ↑ http://www.bokus.com/bok/9781568814308/emmy-noether/
- ↑ http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1238610
- ↑ http://www.bokus.com/bok/9781568814308/emmy-noether/
- ↑ http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1238610
- ↑ http://www.bokus.com/bok/9781568814308/emmy-noether/
- ↑ http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1238610
- ↑ http://www.maa.org/publications/periodicals/convergence/the-prince-of-mathematics-carl-friedrich-gauss
- ↑ http://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1238610
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/435059.M_B_W_Tent
- ↑ http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1238610&coll=portal&dl=ACM
- ↑ http://www.nhbs.com/the_prince_of_mathematics_tefno_162101.html
- ↑ http://www.bokus.com/bok/9781568814308/emmy-noether/
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/435059.M_B_W_Tent
- ↑ http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-author=M.%20B.%20W.%20Tent&page=1&rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AM.%20B.%20W.%20Tent