Milo Beckman

Milo Beckman has been addicted to math since a young age. Born in Manhattan in 1995, he began taking math classes at Stuyvesant High School at age eight and was captain of the New York City Math Team by age thirteen. His diverse projects and independent research have been featured in the New York Times , FiveThirtyEight , Good Morning America , Salon , the Huffington Post , the Chronicle of Higher Education , Business Insider , the Boston Globe , Gothamist , the Economist , and others. He worked for three tech companies, two banks, and a US senator before retiring at age nineteen to teach math in New York, China, and Brazil, and to work on this book.