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He holds a Bachelor of Surgery from Pratt Institute, where he first studied architecture. From there he went directly to M.I.T to receive his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics (algebraic geometry) in 1972.
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Joseph Mazur
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He spent his junior year in Paris, studying mathematics in classes with Claude Chevalley and Roger Godement and returned to Pratt to earn a Bachelor of Surgery in mathematics. He has held a Visiting Scholar position at M.I.T and several Visiting Professor positions at The Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick. In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on mathematical narrative.
In 2011 and 2013 he was awarded Bogliasco Fellowships.
Since 1972 he has taught all areas of mathematics, its history and philosophy. He has authored many educational software programs, including Explorations in Calculus, the first interactive, multimedia Civil Defense package of simulations for calculus.
He is the author of several popular mathematics books that have been translated into more than a dozen languages.
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