Bülent Atalay
Bulent Atalay is an American author, scientist, and artist,
Atalay is the author of the best selling book, Math and the Mona Lisa: the Art and Science of Leonardo da Vinci, initially published in English by Smithsonian Books in 2004, and subsequently in eleven foreign languages. His new book, "Leonardo’s Universe: the Renaissance World of Leonardo da Vinci," coauthored with Keith Wamsley, is scheduled for release by National Geographic Books in January 2009.
A theoretical nuclear physicist, he is the author of numerous technical articles in physics. He has been a professor of physics for four decades at the University of Mary Washington, an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He lectures around the world.
An artist, his works have been exhibited in one-man shows in London and Washington, and his books of lithographs — “Lands of Washington: Impressions Ink” and “Oxford and the English Countryside: Impressions of Ink” — were both published by Eton House in the 1970s, but are no longer in print.
Education
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Books
Math and the Mona Lisa Leonardo's Universe