Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Eli Maor
He is basically a historian, and GoogleScholar is notoriously bad in finding citations in humanities, so it is better to look for factors other than h-index in this case. His books are widely held in academic libraries, according to WorldCat: 1647http://www.worldcat.org/title/e-the-story-of-a-number/oclc/29310868&referer=brief_results,  1183http://www.worldcat.org/title/to-infinity-and-beyond-a-cultural-history-of-the-infinite/oclc/13947014&referer=brief_results, 927http://www.worldcat.org/title/pythagorean-theorem-a-4000-year-history/oclc/71146640&referer=brief_results. These are quite high numbers for academic library holdings, even for books with popular appeal. His books also have been extensively reviewed in a variety of publications, from specialized scholarly journals, to general science periodicals to ordinary newspapers. E.g. there were reviews of his books in Naturehttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v406/n6796/index.html (review on p. 562), and http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v370/n6489/pdf/370427a0.pdf, Sciencehttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1987Sci...237..666Mhttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1994Sci...264Q1952M, New Scientisthttp://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15821325.600-taming-the-triangle.html, http://md1.csa.com/partners/viewrecord.php?requester=gs&collection=TRD&recid=20091476527AN&q=&uid=789778758&setcookie=yes, American Mathematical Monthlyhttp://www.worldcat.org/title/trigonometric-delights-by-eli-maor/oclc/196263157&referer=brief_results, as well as in specialized scholarly journalshttps://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF00661861,http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2000JBAA..110Q.103M,https://doi.org/10.1023%2FA%3A1026515232759,http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000PhyEd..35..370M,http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1165560,http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004Orion.321...68M,http://www.worldcat.org/title/eli-maor-june-8-2004-venus-in-transit/oclc/193022831&referer=brief_results,http://www.worldcat.org/title/book-reviews-the-pythagorean-theorem-a-4000-year-history-by-eli-maor/oclc/299566165&referer=brief_results, http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/full/seri/JHA../0031//0000361.000.html and also in some newspapers, e.g. Los Angeles Timeshttp://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/58703345.html?dids=58703345:58703345&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+20%2C+1987&author=Lee+Dembart&pub=Los+Angeles+Times+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Infinity+as+Link+Between+Mathematics+and+Art+TO+INFINITY+AND+BEYOND+A+Cultural+History+of+the+Infinite+by+Eli+Maor+(Birkhauser%3A+%2449.50%3B+288+pp.)+MATHEMATICAL+PUZZLEMENTS+Play+and+Invention+With+Mathematics+by+Herbert+Kohl+(Schocken+Books%3A+%2418.95%3B+220+pp.)&pqatl=google, Times Higher Educationhttp://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=209387&sectioncode=1, Washington Timeshttp://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=WT&p_theme=wt&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB08BFA0121F1AA&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM,  etc. I am fairly sure that there are more. A bio page about him at the Princeton University Presshttp://press.princeton.edu/math/maticians.html mentions an award from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics for the best article on teaching the applications of mathematics. Thishttp://bookweb.kinokuniya.co.jp/htmy/0691148236.html says that his book "The Pythagorean Theorem : A 4,000-Year History" received an Honorable Mention, 2007 award for best professional/scholary book in mathematics, Association of American Publishers. Overall, I think there is enough here to pass  and 
— User:Nsk92, 06:21, 31 August 2010 (UTC)
Stance: keep
Cited policy: WP:PROF||WP:AUTHOR (Wikipedia:Notability)