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About Joseph Mazur

Joseph C. Mazur (born in the Bronx in 1942) is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Marlboro College, in Marlboro, Vermont.

He holds a B.S. from Pratt Institute, where he first studied architecture. He spent his junior year in Paris, studying mathematics in classes with Claude Chevalley and Roger Godement and returned to Pratt to earn a B.S. in mathematics. From there he went directly to M.I.T to receive his Ph.D. in mathematics (algebraic geometry) in 1972. He has held a visiting scholar position at M.I.T and several visiting professor positions at The Mathematics Institute of the University of Warwick.

In 2006 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for work on mathematical narrative. In 2008 he was awarded a Bellagio Fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation, and in 2009 was elected to Fellow of the Vermont Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2011, 2013, and 2019 he was awarded Bogliasco Fellowships.

Joseph Mazur writes about Mathematics, Chance, Psychological aspects, Philosophy, Number concept, and History. Their best-known work is Fluke.

On FindMyTBR we track 2 books by Joseph Mazur, 2 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including Fluke : The Math and Myth of Coincidence and The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.