Margaret Wertheim

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Margaret Wertheim (born 1958, Brisbane, Australia) is a science writer and the author of several books on the cultural history of physics.

These books include Pythagoras' Trousers, a history of the relationship between physics and religion in Western culture, and The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet. From 2001-2005 Wertheim wrote the Quark Soup column for the LA Weekly and is currently a contributor to the New York Times and Los Angeles Times as well as a contributing editor to Cosmos, the Australian-based literary science magazine, and Cabinet magazine, the international arts and cutlure quarterly. In 2004 she was the National Science Foundation visiting journalist to Antarctica, and in 2006 her writing on the Antarctic was awarded the print journalism prize from the American Institute of Biological Sciences. In 2003, she founded the Institute For Figuring, an organization based in Los Angeles that promotes the public understanding of the poetic and aesthetic dimensions of science and mathematics. Through her work with the IFF she has curated exhibitions at galleries and museums, including Apexart, Machine Project, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Art Center College of Design, and forthcoming at the Museum of Jurassic Technology.

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Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars (1995)
The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace: A History of Space from Dante to the Internet (1999)
A Field Guide to Hyperbolic Space (2005)
A Field Guide to the Business Card Menger Sponge (2006)