American mathematician
Jean J. Pedersen Jean J. Pedersen (Sep 17, 1934–Jan 1, 2016)[ 1] [ 2] mathematics of paper folding .
Education and career
Pedersen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah , the daughter of an ophthalmologist and a teacher. She studied home economics changing to a double major in mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University , before becoming a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Utah under the supervision of E. Allen Davis.[ 2]
After completing her master's degree , she moved to San Jose, California , following her husband who worked for IBM . She joined the faculty at the Santa Clara University on a part-time basis in 1966, but shifted to full-time and was promoted to full professor in 1996. She was the first woman to teach mathematics at the university, and the first to be tenured as a mathematics professor.[ 2]
Her discovery that the platonic solids could be braided from strips of paper led to Martin Gardner writing about it in the September, 1971 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American .[ 3]
Books
Pedersen's books include:
Geometric Playthings (With Kent Pedersen, Dale Seymour Publications Secondary, 1973, ISBN 978-0866513517 )Fear No More: An Adult Approach to Mathematics (with Peter Hilton , Dale Seymour Publications, 1982 ISBN 978-0201057133 )Build Your Own Polyhedra (with Peter Hilton , Addison-Wesley, 1988)[ 4] Mathematical Reflections: In a Room with Many Windows (with Peter Hilton and Derek Holton, Springer, 1996)[ 5] [ 6] Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows (with Peter Hilton and Derek Holton, Springerl 2002)[ 5] [ 7] 99 Points of Intersection: Examples—Pictures—Proofs [ 8] A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics (with Peter Hilton , illustrated by Sylvie Donmoyer, Cambridge University Press, 2010)[ 9] She and Peter Hilton also translated The Golden Section and Symmetry by Hans Walser from German into English. Both translations were published by the Mathematical Association of America in 2001.[ 10]
References
^ "Jean Pedersen (1934–2016)" , News, Events & Announcements , American Mathematical Society , February 5, 2016^ a b c "Jean Pedersen" , Santa Clara Magazine , June 6, 2016, retrieved 2018-10-29 ^ "Plaited Platonic Puzzles " by Jean J. Pedersen,
The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal , vol. 4, no. 3, 1973, pp 22-37
^ Reviews of Build Your Own Polyhedra :
Schmidt, Don (February 1989), The Mathematics Teacher , 82 (2): 145, JSTOR 27966155 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Leiva, Miriam A. (April 1989), The Arithmetic Teacher , 36 (8): 58– 59, JSTOR 41193678 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Jacob, Wiliam (October 1994), The Mathematics Teacher , 87 (7): 572, JSTOR 27969009 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Provost, Mary D. (September–October 1995), Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School , 1 (6): 497– 498, JSTOR 41181482 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ^ a b Review of Mathematical Reflections and Mathematical Vistas :
^ Review of Mathematical Reflections :
^ Reviews of Mathematical Vistas :
^ Reviews of 99 Points of Intersection :
Ashbacher, Charles (2004–2005), "Review" , Journal of Recreational Mathematics , 33 (3): 215– 216 Poplicher, Mihaela (September 2006), "Review" , MAA Reviews Coupland, Mary (2006), "Review" , Australian Mathematics Teacher , 62 (3): 32 Jensen, John (March 2007), The Mathematics Teacher , 100 (7): 511– 512, JSTOR 27972312 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link )Leversha, Gerry (November 2008), The Mathematical Gazette , 92 (525): 588– 589, doi :10.1017/S0025557200184074 , JSTOR 27821873 , S2CID 185487968 {{citation }}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link ) ^ Reviews of A Mathematical Tapestry :
^ Review of The Golden Section and Symmetry :
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