Amir alexander biography
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Amir alexander biography
Amir Alexander
Israeli historian
Amir Alexander is a historian, author, and academic who studies the interconnections between mathematics and its cultural and historical setting.
Early life and education
Born in Rehovot, Israel, he grew up in Jerusalem[1] where his father, Shlomo Alexander, was a professor of physics at the UCLA and the Hebrew University and his mother, Esther Alexander, was an economist and social activist.[2][3][4]: xv He obtained a B.S.
from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1988 in mathematics and history, before moving to the United States, where he obtained an M.A. in history of science from Stanford University in 1990, and a Ph.D. in history of science from Stanford University in 1996.[5]
Career
His first book, Geometrical Landscapes: The Voyages of Discovery and the Transformation of Mathematical Practice, was published in 2002.[4][6] The book descri