Marjorie Senechal

Marjorie Senechal
Born
Marjorie Wikler

1939
St. Louis, Missouri
Alma materUniversity of Chicago
Illinois Institute of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
History of science
InstitutionsSmith College
Doctoral advisorAbe Sklar

Marjorie Lee Senechal (née Wikler, born 1939) is an American mathematician and historian of science, the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College[1] and editor-in-chief of The Mathematical Intelligencer.[2] In mathematics, she is known for her work on tessellations and quasicrystals; she has also studied ancient Parthian electric batteries[3] and published several books about silk.[4]

  1. ^ Faculty listing Archived 2017-05-20 at the Wayback Machine, Smith College Department of Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2013-07-15.
  2. ^ Publisher's web site for The Mathematical Intelligencer, retrieved 2013-07-15.
  3. ^ "Riddle of 'Baghdad's batteries'", BBC News, 27 February 2003.
  4. ^ As well as the two books written by Senechal listed in the Books section, she edited and contributed to Silk Unraveled!: Threads of Human History, Smith College Studies in History 53, 2005.