Francis Su is the Benediktsson Karwa Professor of Mathematics at Harvey Mudd College and the past president of the Mathematical Association of America. In 2013, he received the Haimo Award, a nationwide teaching prize for college math faculty, and in 2018 he won the Halmos-Ford writing award for the highly acclaimed speech on which his book Mathematics for Human Flourishing is based. His work has been featured in Quanta Magazine, Wired, and the New York Times.