Deborah Jo Bennett (born 1950)[1] is an American mathematician, mathematics education scholar, and book author.
[2] Bennett is originally from Tuscaloosa, Alabama; her father was a military officer and her mother worked as a computer systems analyst.
[4] She joined New Jersey City University as an assistant professor of mathematics in 1993, adding a concurrent appointment in education in 1999.
[3] She is also the author of two popular mathematics books, Randomness (Harvard University Press, 1998),[5] and Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You (W. W. Norton, 2004).
[6] Her book Logic Made Easy was listed as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2004 by Choice Reviews.