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][1]

Career

Tent attended Amherst regional school[2] and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.[1] She received her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.[2]

She has been teaching and writing about mathematics for many years.[1]

Critical reception

Most of her books have received good reviews from organizations such as the Mathematical Association of America,[3] Association for Computing Machinery and Goodreads.[1][4]

Her books have received hundreds of citations in the academic press.[5]

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.[6][2]

Bibliography

Some of her best known works are:[4][7]

  • 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
  1. "Ubiquity: Review of 'The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss' by M.B.W. Tent, A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2006". ubiquity.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  2. Tent, M. B. W. (2008-10-10). Emmy Noether av M B W Tent (Bok) (in Swedish). ISBN 9781568814308.
  3. "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  4. "M.B.W. Tent". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  5. Reviewer-Gagliano, Ross (2007-03-01). "Review of 'The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss' by M.B.W. Tent, A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2006". Ubiquity. 2007 (March): 3. doi:10.1145/1232048.1238610.
  6. "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss". www.nhbs.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  7. "Amazon.com: M. B. W. Tent: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.



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