Alexander Soifer

I was once born in Moscow. There I became an intellectual, earned a scientific degree. I then left in search of freedom, personal, political, and creative.

That freedom I found on the faraway shores of the United States. I am a university professor of mathematics and European cinema, and a writer.

I strive to make mathematics a genre of literature. I view math as an art (for otherwise I would be doing other arts). "The Mathematical Coloring Book" manifests my style the best. It conveys math through evolution of ideas, together with archivally researched lives of creators of the presented math, with thoughts on place of a scientist in a criminal dictatorship (Nazi Fermany and the like), philosophy of foundations, psychology of discovery, art, aesthetics, and poetry.

I hope you will enjoy reading my books as well as I enjoyed writing them...