Siobhan Roberts

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Siobhan Roberts
BornBelleville, Ontario, Canada
OccupationJournalist
NationalityCanadian
Alma materRyerson University
Queen's University at Kingston


Siobhan Roberts is a Canadian science journalist, biographer, and historian of mathematics.

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Education

Roberts was born in Belleville, Ontario. [1] She earned a degree in history at Queen's University, then a graduate degree in journalism from Ryerson University in 1997. [2]

Books

Roberts is the author of:

Recognition

Roberts has won a number of Canadian National Magazine Awards, [2] and she is the winner of the Communications Award of the Joint Policy Board for Mathematics "for her engaging biographies of eminent mathematicians and articles about mathematics". [2] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Transcript: Siobhan Roberts and Barry Wellman". TVOntario. March 10, 2007. Retrieved April 12, 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Phillips, Catherine (January 22, 2017), "Journalist Siobhan Roberts wins prestigious award", Ryerson Review of Journalism
  3. ↑ Reviews of King of Infinite Space:
  4. ↑ "Euler Book Prize" (PDF), MAA Prizes Presented in Washington, DC, Notices of the American Mathematical Society , 56 (5): 635, May 2009
  5. ↑ Reviews of Wind Wizard:
  6. ↑ Prix W. Gordon Plewes Award (PDF), Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, 2016, retrieved 2018-05-19
  7. ↑ Reviews of Genius At Play:
  8. ↑ JPBM Communications Award, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics , retrieved 2018-05-19
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