Siobhan Roberts
Siobhan Roberts | |
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| Born | Belleville, Ontario, Canada |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Alma mater | Ryerson University Queen's University at Kingston |
Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.
Education
Roberts was born in
Ryerson University in 1997.[2]
Books
Roberts is the author of:
- King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, the Man Who Saved Geometry, about Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (Walker & Company, 2006),[3] winner of the Euler Book Prize of the Mathematical Association of America[4]
- Wind Wizard: Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering, about Alan Garnett Davenport (Princeton University Press, 2012),[5] winner of the W. Gordon Plewes History Award of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering[6]
- Genius At Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway, about John Horton Conway (Bloomsbury, 2015)[7]
Recognition
Roberts has won a number of Canadian National Magazine Awards,[2] and she is the winner of the Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics "for her engaging biographies of eminent mathematicians and articles about mathematics".[2][8]
References
- TVOntario. March 10, 2007. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
- ^ a b c Phillips, Catherine (January 22, 2017), "Journalist Siobhan Roberts wins prestigious award", Ryerson Review of Journalism
- ^ Reviews of King of Infinite Space:
- "Review", Publishers Weekly
- Ellenberg, Jordan (September 6, 2006), "Symmetry in Motion", The Washington Post
- Treleaven, Sarah (Spring 2007), "Review", Leading Edge, UofT Magazine
- Brown, J. R. (March 2007), doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm019)
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- Choate, Jonathan (July 2007), "Review", Convergence, Mathematical Association of America
- JSTOR 27858939
- Hershey-Handler, Barbara (November 2007), )
- )
- du Sautoy, Marcus (December 8, 2007), "Strength in numbers", The Guardian
- doi:10.1086/529335)
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- Kidwell, Mark E. (May 2008), )
- Persson, Ulf (November 2008), )
- McRae, Alan S. (2008), )
- Gough, John (2010), "Review", Vinculum, 47 (2): 8
- ^ "Euler Book Prize" (PDF), MAA Prizes Presented in Washington, DC, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56 (5): 635, May 2009
- ^ Reviews of Wind Wizard:
- "Review", Kirkus Reviews
- Mariano, Paolo Maria, )
- McRobie, Allan (November 2012), "Engineering: Turbulent genius", doi:10.1038/491668a
- Crystall, Ben (November 2012), "The man who tamed the wind",
- Fessenden, Marissa (December 1, 2012), "Recommended",
- Aynsley, Richard (November 2013), Architectural Science Review, 56 (4): 333–334, )
- Lau, Robert (2013), CTBUH Journal, 1 (1), Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat: 56, )
- Bert, Ray (2013), Civil Engineering, 83 (2), ASCE: 74
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- ^ Prix W. Gordon Plewes Award (PDF), Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 2016, retrieved 2018-05-19
- ^ Reviews of Genius At Play:
- "Review", Publishers Weekly
- Wakefield, Thomas Philip, )
- Lewin, Sarah (July 2015), doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0815-82d)
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- The Huffington Post
- Glass, Darren (August 2015), "Review", MAA Reviews
- )
- Robbin, Tony (November 2015), "Review", Interalia
- Collins, Jeb (February 2016), )
- )
- Griffiths, Martin (February 2017), doi:10.1017/mag.2017.34)
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link - ^ JPBM Communications Award, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, retrieved 2018-05-19
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