Laurie E. Bass

Laurie E. Bass brought rigorous mathematics to New York's Fieldston School students for 43 years. “I love being able to take something that a textbook makes static, but make it come alive”—that is perhaps Bass’ mantra as a mathematician. Ironically, she spent twenty years as an author of geometry textbooks at Prentice Hall (now called Savvas). She considered it an opportunity to make geometry more accessible to a national community of students. Even there, Bass found a way to add …