Download or read book The Artist and the Mathematician written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the intellectual prank through which the character of a fictional 1930s genius mathematician was devised and promoted throughout the American education system, describing how he was credited with originating the modern mathematical proof and the emergence of "new math."