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Robyn Arianrhod
Australian historian of science
Robyn Arianrhod is an Australian science writer and historian of science known for her works on the predecessors to Albert Einstein, on Émilie du Châtelet and Mary Somerville, and on Thomas Harriot.
Education
In the 1970s, Arianrhod left her honours program in mathematics to join a radical counterculture community, without electricity, running water, or communications.[1] She returned to school, and earned a doctorate in general relativity from Monash University.
She remains affiliated with Monash University as an honorary research associate in the mathematical sciences.[2]
Books
Arianrhod's first book, Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World through the Language of Mathematics (University of Queensland Press and Oxford University Press, 2005; ISBN 9780702234088, ISBN 978-0-19-530890-7, ISBN 978-0-19-518370-2)[3] has little to do with Albert Einstein himself.
The titular hero