Siobhan Roberts

Siobhan Roberts is a journalist and biographer whose work focuses on mathematics and science. She was born in Belleville, Ontario, and splits her time between there, Toronto, and elsewhere (most recently Berlin, as writer-in-residence at Humboldt-Universität’s Institut für Mathematik). While writing her new book, GENIUS AT PLAY, a biography of mathematician John Horton Conway, she 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. Her first book, KING OF INFINITE SPACE, won the Mathematical Association of America’s 2009 Euler Prize for expanding the public’s view of mathematics.