Doris J Schattschneider is an American mathematician, a retired professor of mathematics at Moravian College.
10 Facts About Doris Schattschneider
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Doris Schattschneider 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.
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Doris Schattschneider's family moved to Lake Placid, New York during World War II, while her father served as an engineer for the US Army; she began her schooling in Lake Placid, but returned to Staten Island after the war.
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Doris Schattschneider did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Rochester, and earned a Ph.
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Doris Schattschneider taught at Northwestern University for a year and at the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle for three years before joining the faculty of Moravian College in 1968, where she remained for 34 years until her retirement.
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Doris Schattschneider was the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, from 1981 to 1985.
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Doris Schattschneider was married for 54 years to the Rev Dr David A Schattschneider, a church historian and Dean of Moravian Theological Seminary; their daughter Laura Ellen Schattschneider is a lawyer.
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Doris Schattschneider investigated, and devising her own notation system, had found a previously unknown type of pentagon tiling by February 1976.
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Doris Schattschneider was skeptical at first, but upon careful examination, was able to validate Rice's results.
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Doris Schattschneider delivered the Martin Gardner Lecture at MathFest in August 2021.