Benjamin Hart Yandell (16 March 1951, Pasadena – 25 August 2004, Pasadena) was an American author, known as the posthumous winner of the 2008 Euler Book Prize. He graduated in 1973 with a bachelor's degree from Stanford University. Yandell was a mathematical boy-genius who, after graduating from Stanford Phi Beta Kappa with departmental honors in mathematics, chose to become a poet and worked as a TV repairman in South Central LA. Upon his death he was survived by his wife and their daughter, Kate Louise Yandell (born 1988), who is a science writer dealing with biology.