Marjorie Senechal

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Marjorie Lee Senechal (born Wikler ; born July 18, 1939 in St. Louis , Missouri ) is an American mathematician who deals with patterns in geometry (crystals, tilings ).

Senechal is the daughter of the psychiatrist Abraham Wikler (1910–1981). She received her PhD in 1965 with Abe Sklar at the Illinois Institute of Technology ( Approximate Functional Equations and Probabilistic Inner Product Spaces ). She was Louise Wolff Kahn Professor at Smith College , where she has since retired. At Smith College, she was the founding director of the Louise W. and Edmund J. Kahn Liberal Arts Institute . Among other things, she was a visiting scientist at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES). She is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society .

In addition to discrete geometry and mathematical crystallography (for example quasicrystals ), she also deals with the history of science, for example the history of the silk industry. She considers Boris Nikolayevich Delone to be her real teacher (although she never met him).

She is co-editor of The Mathematical Intelligencer . She also wrote a book about Albania .

Fonts

  • as editor and co-author with George Fleck: Patterns of Symmetry. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst MA 1977, ISBN 0-87023-232-0 (also translated into Russian: Узоры Симметрии. Мир, Москва 1980).
    • Pp. 91-95: Symmetry: The Perception of Order.
    • Pp. 123-141: The Theory of Patterns.
  • as editor: Structure of Matter and Patterns in Science. Inspired by the work and life of Dorothy Wrinch, 1894-1976. The Proceedings of a symposium held at Smith College, Northampton, Mass. September 28/30, 1977 and selected papers of Dorothy Wrinch, from the Sophia Smith Collection. Schenkman Publishing Co., Cambridge MA 1980, ISBN 0-87073-908-5 .
  • as editor and co-author with George Fleck: Shaping space. A polyhedral approach. Birkhäuser, Boston MA et al. 1988, ISBN 0-8176-3351-0 .
    • Pp. 3-43: A Visit to the Polyhedron Kingdom.
    • Pp. 191-197: Introduction to Polyhedron Theory.
    • Pp. 263–265: with George Fleck: Polyhedra in the Curriculum?
  • Crystalline Symmetries. An informal mathematical introduction. Alan Hilger, Bristol et al. 1990, ISBN 0-7503-0041-8 .
  • Shape. In: Lynn Arthur Steen (Ed.): On the Shoulders of Giants. New Approaches to Numeracy. National Academy Press, Washington DC 1990, ISBN 0-309-04234-8 , pp. 139-181, ( online ).
  • Introduction to lattice geometry. In: Michel Waldschmidt , Pierre Moussa, Jean-Marc Luck, Claude Itzykson (Eds.): Number Theory and Physics. (Lectures given at the Meeting “Number Theory and Physics”, held at the “Center de Physique”, Les Houches, France, March 7-16, 1989). Springer, Berlin et al. 1992, ISBN 3-540-53342-7 , pp. 476-495.
  • as editor: The cultures of Science. Nova Science Publishers, Commack NY 1994, ISBN 1-56072-185-5 .
  • Quasicrystals and Geometry. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 1995, ISBN 0-521-37259-3 .
  • with Stan Sherer (photos): Long Life to your Children! A Portrait of High Albania. University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst MA 1997, ISBN 1-55849-096-5 .
  • with Peter Engel, Louis Michel Lattice Geometry. Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, Bures-sur-Yvette 2004, ( PDF file ).
  • with Jacqueline Field, Madelyn Shaw: American Silk 1830–1930. Entrepreneurs and Artifacts (= Costume Society of America Series. ). Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock TX 2007, ISBN 978-0-89672-589-8 .
  • I Died for Beauty. Dorothy Wrinch and the Cultures of Science. Oxford University Press, New York NY et al. 2013, ISBN 978-0-19-973259-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Regina Baron Brunner: Marjorie Wikler Senechal. In: Charlene Morrow, Teri Perl (eds.): Notable women in mathematics. A biographical dictionary. Greenwood Press, Westport CT et al. 1998, ISBN 0-313-29131-4 , pp. 225-229.
  2. ↑ Dedication in her book Crystalline Symmetry
  3. ↑ Marjorie Senechal in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  4. ↑ Senechal to Delone, MacTutor Archive
  5. ↑ British mathematician who dealt primarily with mathematical techniques for X-ray structure analysis, portrait at Agnes Scott College .
personal data
SURNAME Senechal, Marjorie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Senechal, Marjorie Lee (full name); Wikler, Marjorie (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH July 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri