Readings, Discussions, Signings and Interviews


Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 7:30p.m.
Talk: The Psychology and Ethics of Gambling
The Humanities Center at California State University, Chico
PAC 134. Reception to follow in Trinity 100.
For more information call 530-898-4642

November 15, 2010: Listen to Write The Book Interview with Shelagh Shapiro on Burlington 105.9 FM

Also click here for a link to Shelagh's Write the Book Prompt


Saturday, September 25, 2010 at 10:00a.m.
Reading What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
Burlington Book Festival
Burlington, Vermont


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Sunday, June 13, 2010 at 4:00p.m.
Reading What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler’s Illusion

Misty Valley Books
58 The Common
Chester, Vermon
www.mvbooks.com

For more information contact: Lynne Reed 802-875-3400

Friday, October 23, 2009 at 6:00pm
Lecture: Euclid Meets Zeno
The Elusive Boundary Between Mathematics and Reality

Aster Plaza Hotel
Hiroshima, Japan
Sponsored by The Mathematical Society of Japan, the Urban Planing Society of Hiroshima, the City of Hiroshima and the Volunteer Organizing Committee.
For directions and more information click here.

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010 at 6:00p.m.
Book release party for What’s Luck Got to Do with It?
The History, Mathematics, and Psychology of the Gambler’s Illusion


The Blue Moose Café
29 High St., Brattleboro, Vermont

Sponsored by
The Book Cellar
120 Main Street
Brattleboro, Vermont

For more information contact: Kati Knapp 802-254-6810
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Friday, October 23, 2009 at 2:30pm
Lecture: Influence, Persuasion and Proof in Mathematics
Sponsored by Hiroshima University and the Japan Mathematical Society
Mathematics Department
Hiroshima University
1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, JAPAN

For interview requests please contact:
Andrew DeSio
Publicity Director
Princeton University Press
609-258-5165
Andrew_DeSio@​press.princeton.edu

Selected Works

Nonfiction
What's Luck Got To Do With It?
Princeton University Press (2010). A book about the nature of gambling, emphasizing the dangers and pitfalls of feeling lucky. It will investigate the hooks of gambling and what makes gamblers feel lucky. Using both mathematics and psychology it will illustrate the misconceptions of luck, explore what it means to have a good chance, and to create an awareness of expected outcomes.
The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year-Old Puzzle Behind the Mysteries of Time and Space
Published by Dutton in April 2007. Now available in bookstores. "THIS is one of the most fascinating science books I have ever read . . . Mazur has succeeded in telling a fresh and untold story with clarity and style." -- The New Scientist
Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Logic and Math
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year 2005-- “This book is a treasure of human experience and intellectual excitement.”
--Choice
Editor of Number: The Language of Science
Editor of the revived classic by Tobias Dantzig, Number: The Language of Science.