David Bergamini

David Bergamini (1928–3 September 1983,^[1] Tokyo)^[2] was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics. Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother, father (John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa,) and younger sister for the duration of World War II.

Partial bibliography

• The Fleet in the Window (a novel published in 1961)
• The Universe (Life Nature Library) (1962; revised 1966, 1967)
• Mathematics (Life Science Library) (1963)
• Australia, Its Land and Wildlife (1964)
• The Scientist (Life Science Library) (1965)
• Japan's Imperial Conspiracy (1971), ISBN 0-688-01905-6
• Venus Development (a novel published in 1976)

References

1. New York Times, 4 Sep 1983
2. Preface of Japan's Imperial Conspiracy