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PEN/Martha Albrand Award
New York, May 22, 2005: Mazur’s Euclid in the Rainforest is chosen as one of two Finalist for PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. In Euclid and the Rainforest, Joseph Mazur brilliantly explores the symbiotic relationship between the physical and the mathematical worlds. He asks the questions: How do we know that the world is what we experience it to be? Can logic guide us through the rainforest of science and math and provide us with a chance to discover the underlying foundations for their truths? In his highly original search, Mazur is a brilliant forester whose graceful pursuit leads him to understand the logical bases of human reason. Mazur has given us a stylish and seductive book that convinces the mind even as it delights the soul. |
News Lecture at Aster Plaza, Hiroshima, October 2009 If you can read Japanese, click here for a review of the event.  Bellagio -- September 2008 The picture was taken on an unusually cold day at the end of the month -- hence the jackets. September 2008: A MONTH BY THE LAKE at the Rockefeller Foundation Villa Serbelloni. A Residency at the Bellagio Center on Lake Como, Italy. March 25, 2008: The paperback version of The Motion Paradox was released. It is retitled Zeno's Paradox. In 2007 & 2008 translations were published in Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Sweedish and Danish. April 5, 2006: The Chinese translation of Euclid in the Rainforest was released (one of five foreign language translations). The cover, a very beautiful cover at that, claimed that “Euclid in the Rainforest” had been on the New York Times Bestseller List for 60 weeks. Ha! That’s Chinese truth in advertising for you. |
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