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name: Siobhan Roberts
about: While writing the Conway biography, Siobhan Roberts was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, and a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. In 2017 she won the JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books, bestowed by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (putting her in good company with previous recipients James Gleick and Sylvia Nasar, among others).She also wrote and produced a documentary film about Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry, for TVOntario’s The View From Here (September 2009).As a journalist, she writes for Newyorker.com, New York Times "Science Times," Quanta, and The Walrus. Her profil While writing the Conway biography, Siobhan Roberts was a Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, and a Fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography, at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. In 2017 she won the JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books, bestowed by the American Mathematical Society and the Mathematical Association of America (putting her in good company with previous recipients James Gleick and Sylvia Nasar, among others).She also wrote and produced a documentary film about Coxeter, The Man Who Saved Geometry, for TVOntario’s The View From Here (September 2009).As a journalist, she writes for Newyorker.com, New York Times "Science Times," Quanta, and The Walrus. Her profile of the one-hundred-year-old mathematician Richard Guy was included in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2017 (Princeton University Press).At various times she has contributed to The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Mathematical Intelligencer, Maisonneuve, Canadian Geographic, and Smithsonian, among other publications. She has won a few National Magazine Awards—writing about “the river of dust” at the National Archives in Ottawa, the occasion when the FBI came calling at Winnipeg’s level-4 National Microbiology Laboratory, and Donald Coxeter’s final journey, to a geometry conference in Budapest at the age of ninety-three. ...more