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author did a remarkable job collecting accurate information and weaving it into a fascinating story, which describes the personalities of the people involved quite faithfully, as near as we can tell from 300 years away. It was a surprise to me to learn the early history of the Bernoulli family, including, for example, that Jacob Bernoulli invented methods for teaching mathematics to blind students. It would be a fine gift for a young person with mathematical or scientific inclinations. -July 2009 is an interesting and entertaining biography of Leonhard Euler (1707--1783) and of some of the Bernoullis, aimed at middle and high school students... the book emphasizes day to day life and the relations between the mathematicians, especially the forever-squabbling Bernoullis. -MAA Reviews, November 2009 Tent's attention to detail, both mathematically and historically, is excellent. -Rob Bradley, London Mathematical Society, April 2010 ... the story told is interesting, and the author is to be complimented for her efforts to make it as historically accurate as possible. -J. Johnson, CHOICE Magazine, June 2010

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Tent grew up in western Massachusetts and graduated from Amherst Regional High School and Mt. Holyoke College. She has a second bachelors degree and a masters degree from University of Alabama at Birmingham. Tent retired from teaching middle school mathematics at the Altamont School in June 2007. She is the author of The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss and Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra.

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