Eugene P. Northrop (1908–1969) was an American research mathematician and a math popularizer. Northrop received his PhD from Yale University in 1934 with thesis advisor

Einar Hille Carl Einar Hille (28 June 1894 – 12 February 1980) was an American mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers. Early life and education Hille was born in New Y ...

. Northrop held the William Rainey Harper Chair of

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

at the University of Chicago, and frequently served in administrative roles and on technical commissions. He is most remembered for his 1944 book ''Riddles in Mathematics'', which was well-received by the mathematical community

E. Nagel Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science. Suppes, Patrick (1999)Biographical memoir of Ernest Nagel In '' American National Biograph''y (Vol. 16, pp. 216-218). New York: Oxford University P ...

(1945) Review of ''Riddles in Mathematics'', ''Journal of Symbolic Logic'' 10(1), 21. and remains in print as a

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book (first published in 2014).

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