About M. B. W. Tent
Lived 1944 – 2014 (aged 69–70). M. B. W. Tent was an American teacher and mathematician.
Margaret Bunting Wyman Tent (born Margaret Bunting Wyman; November 2, 1944 – September 20, 2014), also known by her pen name M. B. W. Tent, was an American mathematics educator and writer. She was the author of several bestselling books.
Life Tent was born in Westfield, Massachusetts and grew up in Amherst, Massachusetts. She worked as a teacher at Altamont high school in Birmingham, Alabama beginning in 1985. Association for Computing Machinery and Goodreads.
Her books have received hundreds of citations in the academic press.
Her books have also received praise from other authors and mathematicians like William Dunham, Peter Lax, Cathleen Synge Morawetz, Charles Ashbacher and Peter M. Neumann. The Prince of Mathematics: Carl Friedrich Gauss Emmy Noether: The Mother of Modern Algebra Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Polymath Who Brought Us Calculus Leonhard Euler and the Bernoullis: Mathematicians from Basel
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Who was M. B. W. Tent?
American mathematics educator and writer
When was M. B. W. Tent born?
M. B. W. Tent was born on 2 November 1944.
When did M. B. W. Tent die?
M. B. W. Tent died in 2014.
What was M. B. W. Tent's occupation?
M. B. W. Tent was a teacher and mathematician.
What nationality was M. B. W. Tent?
M. B. W. Tent was American.
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