Eugene P. Northrop

{{Short description|Eugene P. Northrop, American research mathematician}}Eugene P. Northrop (1908–1969) was an American research mathematician and a math popularizer.

Northrop received his PhD from Yale University in 1934 with thesis advisor Einar Hille. Northrop held the William Rainey Harper Chair of Mathematics at the University of Chicago,[http://photoarchive.lib.uchicago.edu/db.xqy?one=apf1-01225.xml University of Chicago Archives.] and frequently served in administrative roles and on technical commissions.S E Fienberg et al (2012) A Statistical Model: Frederick Mosteller’s Contributions to Statistics, Science, and Public Policy, Springer. He is most remembered for his 1944 book Riddles in Mathematics,EP Northrop (1944) Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes, Van Nostrand. which was well-received by the mathematical communityE. Nagel (1945) Review of Riddles in Mathematics, Journal of Symbolic Logic 10(1), 21. {{doi|10.2307/2267205}} and remains in print as a Dover book (first published in 2014).{{cite book|author=Northrop, Eugene P.|title=Riddles in Mathematics: A Book of Paradoxes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HST0AwAAQBAJ|date=10 June 2014|publisher=Courier Corporation|isbn=978-0-486-79500-3}}