Doris Schattschneider

Doris Schattschneider
BornOctober 19, 1939 (1939-10-19) (age 85)
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, for helping Martin Gardner validate and popularize the pentagon tiling discoveries of amateur mathematician Marjorie Rice, and for co-directing with Eugene Klotz the project that developed The Geometer's Sketchpad.