Amir Aczel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Amir Dan Aczel was an Israeli-born American lecturer in mathematics and the history of mathematics and science, and an author of popular books on mathematics and science. Biography Amir D. Aczel was born in Haifa, Israel. Aczel's father was the captain of a passenger ship that sailed primarily in the Mediterranean Sea. When he was ten, Aczel's father taught his son how to steer a ship and navigate. This inspired Aczel's book The Riddle of the Compass. Amir graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in Haifa, in 1969.
Amir Aczel's Published Works
Published Works
- Complete Business Statistics (1992) (636)
- Statistics:Concepts and Applications (1995) (110)
- Entanglement: The Greatest Mystery in Physics (2002) (110)
- Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem (1996) (54)
- The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention That Changed the World (2001) (29)
- Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science (2000) (25)
- The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity (2000) (24)
- Complete business statistics -6/E (2002) (18)
- The Chaotic Behavior of Foreign Exchange Rates (1991) (17)
- God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe (1999) (16)
- A Creative Genius (2016) (14)
- Descartes' Secret Notebook: A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe (2005) (14)
- A statistically optimal estimator of semivariance (1993) (13)
- Using the bootstrap for improved ARIMA model identification (1992) (10)
- The Artist and the Mathematician: The Story of Nicolas Bourbaki, the Genius Mathematician Who Never Existed (2006) (9)
- Léon Foucault: His Life, Times and Achievements (2004) (8)
- Entanglement : the unlikely story of how scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers proved Einstein's spookiest theory (2001) (7)
- Probability 1: Why There Must Be Intelligent Life in the Universe (1998) (6)
- Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market, and Just About Everything Else (2004) (5)
- Analysis of student evaluation of teaching scores using bootstrap and permutation methods (1996) (4)
- Time Series Analysis of U.S. Consumption of Motor Gasoline (1986) (4)
- My Search for Ramanujan: How I Learned to Count (2016) (4)
- Uranium Wars: The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age (2009) (3)
- Improved Radiocarbon Age Estimation Using the Bootstrap (1995) (3)
- Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider (2010) (3)
- Complete Business Statistics@@@Elementary Business Statistics: The Modern Approach (1993) (3)
- My Search for Ramanujan (2016) (2)
- Particles that flock. (2011) (2)
- Determining the optimal sample size for decision making (1986) (2)
- How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid-and Fight-an Audit (1996) (2)
- Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers (2015) (2)
- Fermat’s Last Theorem (2007) (1)
- Bootstrap estimates of the sample bivariate autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation distributions (1993) (1)
- My Parents’ Generation (2016) (1)
- I Beg to Introduce Myself (2016) (0)
- The Pirate Professor (2016) (0)
- Books in brief (2011) (0)
- HITTING MY STRIDE (2016) (0)
- Together at Last (2016) (0)
- The Idea of Ramanujan (2016) (0)
- My Childhood (1970–1984) (2016) (0)
- An Unexpected Letter (2016) (0)
- Permission from the Goddess (2016) (0)
- I Believe in Santa (2016) (0)
- Ross Perot and the Multinomial Distribution (1994) (0)
- The Tragic End (2016) (0)
- Statistical tests of multivariate time series (1982) (0)
- Triumph over Racism (2016) (0)
- Response to a Review of My Book (2010) (0)
- These Formulas Defeated Me Completely (2016) (0)
- A note on a journal selection problem (1990) (0)
- I Count Now (2016) (0)
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