Tobias Dantzig
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Tobias Dantzig (1884 – 1956) was a Russian mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of NUMBER: The Language of Science.
Born in Latvia, Dantzig studied mathematics with Henri Poincaré in Paris. Tobias married a fellow Sorbonne University student, Anja Ourisson, and the couple emigrated to the United States in 1910. Working for a time as a lumberjack in Oregon, Dantzig received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Indiana University in 1916. He taught at Johns Hopkins, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland.
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