What led to the project: Joel Kugelmass had some
interesting reading tastes as a child growing up in the 1950s. He read
Euclid's writings on geometry as a 11-year-old seventh grader. (He had
skipped grades.) He soon turned his attention to number theory,
reading everything he could about this "elegant" branch of mathematics
that is concerned with the properties of numbers. This interest was
surprising to his more literary family—his father was a reporter at the
San Jose Mercury News—but
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