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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

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

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

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

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

  1. ^ a b c d "Margaret Tent". Daily Hampshire Gazette. September 24, 2014. p. B2. Retrieved November 22, 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss | Mathematical Association of America". www.maa.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  5. ^ a b "M.B.W. Tent". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss". www.nhbs.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  8. ^ "Amazon.com: M. B. W. Tent: Books". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.


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