Siobhan Roberts is a
Canadian
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...
science journalist, biographer, and
historian of mathematics
The history of mathematics deals with the origin of discoveries in mathematics and the mathematical methods and notation of the past. Before the modern age and the worldwide spread of knowledge, written examples of new mathematical developments ...
.
Education
Roberts was born in
Belleville, Ontario
Belleville is a city in Ontario, Canada situated on the eastern end of Lake Ontario, located at the mouth of the Moira River and on the Bay of Quinte. Belleville is between Ottawa and Toronto, along the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. Its population ...
.
She earned a degree in history at
Queen's University, then a graduate degree in journalism from
Ryerson University
Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU or Toronto Met) is a public university, public research university located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The university's core campus is situated within the Garden District, Toronto, Garden District, although i ...
in 1997.
Books
Roberts is the author of:
*''King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry'', about
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
Harold Scott MacDonald "Donald" Coxeter, (9 February 1907 – 31 March 2003) was a British and later also Canadian geometer. He is regarded as one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
Biography
Coxeter was born in Kensington t ...
(Walker & Company, 2006), winner of the
Euler Book Prize
The Euler Book Prize is an award named after Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) and given annually at the Joint Mathematics Meetings by the Mathematical Association of America to an outstanding book in mathematics that is ...
of the
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...
*''Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering'', about
Alan Garnett Davenport
Alan Garnett Davenport (September 19, 1932 – July 19, 2009) was a professor at the University of Western Ontario and founder of its Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Laboratory. He analyzed the wind's effect on a significant portion of the world ...
(Princeton University Press, 2012), winner of the W. Gordon Plewes History Award of the
Canadian Society for Civil Engineering
The Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE) ( French: Société canadienne de génie civil) was founded in 1887 as the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, renamed in 1918 as the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), and re-established in Ju ...
*''Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway'', about
John Horton Conway
John Horton Conway (26 December 1937 – 11 April 2020) was an English mathematician active in the theory of finite groups, knot theory, number theory, combinatorial game theory and coding theory. He also made contributions to many branches ...
(Bloomsbury, 2015)
Recognition
Roberts has won a number of Canadian
National Magazine Awards
The National Magazine Awards, also known as the Ellie Awards, honor print and digital publications that consistently demonstrate superior execution of editorial objectives, innovative techniques, noteworthy enterprise and imaginative design. Or ...
, and she is the winner of the Communications Award of the
Joint Policy Board for Mathematics
The Joint Policy Board for Mathematics (JPBM) consists of the American Mathematical Society, the American Statistical Association, the Mathematical Association of America, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
The Board has ne ...
"for her engaging biographies of eminent mathematicians and articles about mathematics".
References
External links
Home page
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Toronto Metropolitan University alumni
Historians of mathematics
21st-century Canadian journalists
Canadian women journalists
Canadian women historians
21st-century Canadian historians
21st-century Canadian women writers
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Writers from Belleville, Ontario