Career
He has served as President of American Telephone & Telegraph Company-France, as Chairman of the Board for Sperry-France and for International Computers-France, and as an executive and research scientist for other major companies. He was made Chevalier dans l"Ordre national du Mérite in 1981. He was born in Alexandria and has been a special advisor to the Egyptian prime minister for science and technology.
He is the author of the mathematics books Gnomon: From Pharaohs to Fractals and Number: From Ahmes to Cantor, both of which were published by Princeton University Press.
An Italian edition was published by Dedalo Editore. He is also the author of Pyramids Road: An Egyptian Homecoming, published by the American University in Cairo Press.
