M. B. W. Tent
Margaret Bunting Wyman Tent (born Margaret Bunting Wyman; November 2, 1944 – September 20, 2014), also known by her pen name M. B. W. Tent, was an American mathematics educator and writer. She was the author of several bestselling books.
Life[edit]
Tent was born in Westfield, Massachusetts and grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts.[1][2] She worked as a teacher at Altamont high school in Birmingham, Alabama beginning in 1985.[3][2] In 2010, she and her husband moved to Frederick, Maryland to retire from teaching and continue writing.[1]
On September 20, 2014 she died of breast cancer at a hospice in Mount Airy, Maryland at age 69.[1]
Career[edit]
Tent attended Amherst Regional High School[3] and is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College.[2] She received her bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham.[3]
Before teaching post-secondary education, she taught adult education at business colleges and for two years for the American Military in Berlin, Germany.[1]
She has been teaching and writing about mathematics for many years.[2]
Critical reception[edit]
Most of her books have received good reviews from organizations such as the Mathematical Association of America,[4] Association for Computing Machinery and Goodreads.[2][5]
Her books have received hundreds of citations in the academic press.[6]
Her books have also received praise from other authors and mathematicians like William Dunham, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Charles Ashbacher and Peter M. Neumann.[7][3]
Bibliography[edit]
Some of her best known works are:[5][8]
- The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss [1]
- Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra [2]
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus [3]
- Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis: Mathematicians from Basel [4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d "Margaret Tent". Daily Hampshire Gazette. September 24, 2014. p. B2. Retrieved November 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ a b c d e "Ubiquity: Review of 'The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss' by M.B.W. Tent, A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2006". ubiquity.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ a b c d Tent, M. B. W. (2008-10-10). Emmy Noether av M B W Tent (Bok) (in Swedish). Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781568814308.
- ^ "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ a b "M.B.W. Tent". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ Reviewer-Gagliano, Ross (2007-03-01). "Review of 'The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss' by M.B.W. Tent, A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2006". Ubiquity. 2007 (March): 3. doi:10.1145/1232048.1238610.
- ^ "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss". www.nhbs.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Amazon.com: M. B. W. Tent: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
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