
Eli Maor
Excerpted from Beautiful Geometry by Eli Maor and Eugen Jost. Copyright © 2014 by Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission. Eli Maor is the author of To Infinity and Beyond and The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History, among other books (all Princeton University Press) and has taught the history of mathematics at Loyola University Chicago.