BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2012 – 2013

Siobhan Roberts

For a biography of John Horton Conway

Siobhan Roberts is a Toronto journalist and author whose work focuses on mathematics and science. Her first book, King of Infinite Space: Donald Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry, won the Mathematical Association of America’s 2009 Euler Prize for expanding the public’s view of mathematics. She wrote and produced a documentary, The Man Who Saved Geometry, which aired on TVOntario’s The View from Here. Her second book, Wind Wizard: Alan Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering, will be published by Princeton, and she is currently a visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study. She has written for The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Leonardo, The New York Times, Smithsonian, and other publications. As a Leon Levy fellow she worked on her biography of the mathematician John Horton Conway, Genius at Play, published by Bloomsbury in July 2015.