Eugene P. Northrop (1908–1969) was an American research mathematician and a math popularizer.
Northrop received his PhD from Yale University in 1934 with thesis advisor Einar Hille. Northrop held the William Rainey Harper Chair of Mathematics at the University of Chicago,University of Chicago Archives. and frequently served in administrative roles and on technical commissions.S E Fienberg et al (2012) A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Springer. He is most remembered for his 1944 book Riddles in Mathematics,EP Northrop (1944) Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes, Van Nostrand. which was well-received by the mathematical communityE. Nagel (1945) Review of Riddles in Mathematics, Journal of Symbolic Logic 10(1), 21. and remains in print as a Dover book (first published in 2014).
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