Constance Bowman Reid is the author of several biographies of mathematicians and popular books about mathematics.

She is the sister of mathematician Julia Robinson. Julia Hall Bowman Robinson (December 8, 1919 - July 30, 1985) was an American mathematician, born in Saint Louis, Missouri. ...

Publications

• From zero to infinity. What makes numbers interesting. Fifth edition. Fiftieth anniversary edition. A K Peters, Ltd., Wellesley, MA, 2006. xviii+188 pp. ISBN 1-56881-273-6
• A long way from Euclid. Reprint of the 1963 original. Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, NY, 2004. ISBN 0-486-43613-6
• Courant in Göttingen and New York. The story of an improbable mathematician. Springer-Verlag, New York-Heidelberg, 1976. ISBN 0-387-90194-9 Reprint of the 1976 original: Copernicus, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-387-94670-5
• Neyman. Reprint of the 1982 original. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998. ISBN 0-387-98357-0
• Hilbert. Reprint of the 1970 original. Copernicus, New York, 1996. ISBN 0-387-94674-8
• Julia. A life in mathematics. MAA Spectrum. Mathematical Association of America, Washington, DC, 1996. ISBN 0-88385-520-8
• The Search for E. T. Bell : Also Known as John Taine ISBN 0-88385-508-9
• Slacks and Calluses: Our Summer in a Bomber Factory (autobiography) ISBN 1-56098-368-X

Richard Courant (born January 8, 1888 at Lublinitz, today Poland, died January 27, 1972 at New York/USA) was a German and American mathematician. ... Jerzy Neyman (April 16, 1894, in Bendery, Moldova – August 5, 1981, in Oakland, California) was a Polish mathematician. ... David Hilbert (January 23, 1862, Wehlau, East Prussia – February 14, 1943, Göttingen, Germany) was a German mathematician, recognized as one of the most influential mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. ...

References

• Author's Note, from the 4th Edition of From Zero to Infinity, 1992
• Being Julia Robinson's Sister, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, December 1996, 1486-1492.
• Interview, Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews, Albers and Alexanderson, Birkhauser, 1985, 270-280.