Doris Schattschneider
Doris Schattschneider | |
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| Born | October 19, 1939 (age 85) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Moravian College |
| Thesis | Restricted Roots of a Semi-simple Algebraic Group (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Tsuneo 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.