Eugene P. Northrop

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. Northrop held the William Rainey Harper Chair of Mathematics at the University of Chicago,[1] and frequently served in administrative roles and on technical commissions.[2] He is most remembered for his 1944 book Riddles in Mathematics,[3] which was well-received by the mathematical community[4] and remains in print as a Dover book (first published in 2014).[5]

References
  1. University of Chicago Archives.
  2. S E Fienberg et al (2012) A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Springer.
  3. EP Northrop (1944) Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes, Van Nostrand.
  4. E. Nagel (1945) Review of Riddles in Mathematics, Journal of Symbolic Logic 10(1), 21. doi:10.2307/2267205
  5. Northrop, Eugene P. (10 June 2014). Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-79500-3.


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