David Bergamini

David Bergamini (b. 1928-3 Sep 1983, Tokyo), 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 and father for the duration of World War II. After the Second World War, Bergamini attended Dartmouth College until 1949, winning the Peter Grimes prize. Later, he traveled to England and spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Merton College, Oxford. Bergamini attributed his scholastic success to a Japanese guard in his camp, who disobeyed orders to allow the interned children access to schoolbooks. Following the Japanese tradition of education, the guard assisted the children...