Doris Schattschneider

Schattschneider was born in Staten Island; her mother, Charlotte Lucile Ingalls Wood, taught Latin and was herself the daughter of a Staten Island school principal, and her father, Robert W. Wood, Jr., worked as a bridge engineer for New York City.[5] Her family moved to Lake Placid, New York during World War II, while her father served as an engineer for the U. S. Army; she began her schooling in Lake Placid, but returned to Staten Island after the war.[5] She did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at the University of Rochester, and earned a Ph.D. in 1966 from Yale University under the joint supervision of Tsuneo Tamagawa and Ichirô Satake; her thesis, in abstract algebra, concerned semisimple algebraic groups.[2][6] She 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.[2][7] She was the first female editor of Mathematics Magazine, from 1981 to 1985.[1][2] She was married for 54 years to the Rev. Dr. David A. Schattschneider (1939-2016), a church historian and Dean of Moravian Theological Seminary; their daughter Laura Ellen Schattschneider is a lawyer.

Schattschneider won the Mathematical Association of America's Carl B. Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine in 1979, for her article "Tiling the plane with congruent pentagons".[5][8] In 1993, she won the MAA's Award for Distinguished Teaching of College or University Mathematics.[1][2][9] In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[10]

Books

• M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles (with Wallace Walker), Ballantine Books, 1977, Pomegranate Artbooks and TACO, 1987, Taschen 2015[11]
• Visions of Symmetry: Notebooks, Periodic Drawings, and Related Work of M. C. Escher (W. H. Freeman, 1990, 1992;

Revised as M. C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry, Harry N. Abrams, 2004)[12][13][14][15]

• A Companion to Calculus (with Dennis Ebersole, Alicia Sevilla, and Kay Somers, Brooks/Cole, 1995)[16]

Edited volumes

• Geometry Turned On!: Dynamic Software in Learning, Teaching, and Research (with James King, Cambridge University Press, 1997)
• M.C. Escher's Legacy: A Centennial Celebration (with Michelle Emmer, Springer, 2003)

Articles

• Schattschneider, Doris (1978), "Tiling the plane with congruent pentagons" (PDF), Mathematics Magazine, 51: 29–44, doi:10.2307/2689644;

Reprinted with Afterword in The Harmony of the World: 75 Years of Mathematics Magazine, eds. G. Alexanderson and P. Ross, Math. Assoc. of Amer., Washington DC, 2007, pp. 175-190.

• Schattschneider, Doris (1978), "The plane symmetry groups: Their recognition and notation", The American Mathematical Monthly, 85 (6): 439–450, JSTOR 2320063.
• Schattschneider, Doris (1981), "In praise of amateurs", in Klarner, David A. (ed.), The Mathematical Gardner, Boston: Prindle, Weber & Schmidt, pp. 140–166;

Reprinted as Mathematical Recreations: A Collection in Honor of Martin Gardner, Dover Publications, New York, 1998.

• Schattschneider, Doris (1998), "One Corona is Enough for the Euclidean Plane," coauthor Nikolai Dolbilin. In Quasicrystals and Discrete Geometry (J. Patera, editor). Fields Institute Monographs, Vol. 10, AMS, Providence, RI, 1998, pp. 207–246.

Accompanying web site: Catalog of Isohedral Tilings by Symmetric Polygonal Tiles

• Schroeder, Tom (June 11, 1992), "Math Professor's Watchword: Visual", The Morning Call.