Doris Schattschneider

Doris Schattschneider
BornOctober 19, 1939 (1939-10-19) (age 85)
Staten Island, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsMoravian College
Thesis Restricted Roots of a Semi-simple Algebraic Group  (1966)
Doctoral advisorTsuneo Tamagawa
Ichirô Satake

Doris J. Schattschneider (née Wood) is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College. She is known for writing about tessellations and about the art of M. C. Escher,[1][2] for helping Martin Gardner validate and popularize the pentagon tiling discoveries of amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice,[3] and for co-directing with Eugene Klotz the project that developed The Geometer's Sketchpad.[1][2][4]

  1. ^ a b 2005 Parson Lecturer - Dr. Doris Schattschneider, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Department of Mathematics, archived from the original on 2014-01-11, retrieved 2013-07-13.
  2. ^ a b Riddle, Larry (April 5, 2013), Doris Schattschneider, Biographies of Women Mathematicians, Agnes Scott College, retrieved 2013-07-13.
  3. ^ Cole, K. C. (March 11, 1998), "Beating the Pros to the Punch", Los Angeles Times.
  4. ^ Scher, Daniel (Summer 2000), "Lifting the curtain: The evolution of The Geometer's Sketchpad" (PDF), Mathematics Educator, 10 (2): 42–48, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-02-11, retrieved 2013-07-14.