Tony Rothman

Tony Rothman is a theoretical cosmologist who holds a PhD in physics from the University of Texas, Austin. In 2016 he joined the faculty of NYU's Tandon School of Engineering, having previously taught at Princeton and Harvard Universities. To date Rothman has authored approximately 60 scientific papers as well as 11 previous books, both fiction and nonfiction. The latest of these are two novels, Firebird, about a race for nuclear fusion; and The Course of Fortune, a historical novel about the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. His book Sacred Mathematics, Japanese Temple Geometry, with Hidetoshi Fukagawa, won the 2008 American Association of Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in mathematics. He has won numerous other writing awards and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.