News Release - DRAFT

Northfield VT, - Norwich University’s 2017-18 Writers Series will bring award winning author Joseph Mazur to campus on Wednesday, November 15th, at 4pm in the Kreitzberg Library Multipurpose room.

Joseph Mazur is a Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont. Many of his works have appeared in Nature, New York Times, and several other publications. He has been profiled in media venues such as NPR's "The Hidden Brain" and PRI's "Innovation Lab", CBS, the BBC, Vox, Radio Australia, Radio Ireland, and dozens of others.

Mazur is a recipient of several fellowships from the Guggenheim, Bogliasco, and Rockefeller foundations.

He is the author of Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering Universal Truth in Mathematics, which was chosen as a Finalist of the 2005 PEN/Martha Albrand Award and chosen as one of Choice’s 2005 Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year; The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space (Choice’s 2007 Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year); What’s Luck Got to Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology behind the Gambler’s Illusion; Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers; and, his most recent book, Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence.