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David Richeson

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David S. Richeson is an American mathematician whose interests include the topologyofdynamical systems, recreational mathematics, and the history of mathematics. He is a professor of mathematics at Dickinson College, where he holds the John J. & Ann Curley Faculty Chair in the Liberal Arts.^[1]^[2]

Education and career[edit]

Richeson was interested in mathematics from an early age, in part through Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games columns.^[2] He graduated from Hamilton College in 1993, and completed his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in 1998;^[1] his dissertation, Connection Matrix Pairs for the Discrete Conley Index, was supervised by John Franks.^[3]

Richeson joined the Dickinson College faculty after postdoctoral research at Michigan State University. He was the editor of Math Horizons from 2014 to 2019.^[4]^[2]

His second book, Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019), concerns four famous problems of straightedge and compass construction, unsolved by the ancient Greek mathematicians and now known to be impossible: doubling the cube, squaring the circle, constructing regular polygons of any order, and trisecting the angle.^[7]

^ ^a ^b "David Richeson", Faculty profiles, Dickinson College, retrieved 2020-02-25

^ ^a ^b ^c Poudyal, Binam (February 14, 2019), "Professor Spotlight: David Richeson", The Dickinsonian

^ Richeson, David S. (9 May 2017), "About me", Division by zero, retrieved 2020-02-25

^ Reviews of Euler's Gem:

Bradley, Robert (January 8, 2009), "Review", Times Higher Education
Bultheel, Adhemar (January 2020), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society
Ciesielski, Krzysztof, Mathematical Reviews, MR 2963735{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Daems, Jeanine (December 2009), The Mathematical Intelligencer, 32 (3): 56–57, doi:10.1007/s00283-009-9116-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Jones, Dustin L. (August 2009), The Mathematics Teacher, 103 (1): 87, JSTOR 20876528{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Karpenkov, Oleg, zbMATH, Zbl 1153.55001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Martin, Jeremy (December 2010), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 57 (11): 1448–1450
Roth, Bruce (March 2010), The Mathematical Gazette, 94 (529): 176–177, doi:10.1017/S0025557200007397, JSTOR 27821912, S2CID 233362179{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Satzer, William J. (October 2008), "Review", MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America
Wagner, Clifford (February 2010), Convergence, Mathematical Association of America, doi:10.4169/loci003291{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)

^ Reviews of Tales of Impossibility:

Bultheel, Adhemar (November 2019), "Review", EMS Reviews, European Mathematical Society
Pambuccian, Victor V., zbMATH, Zbl 1429.01001{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
Wilson, Robin (January 30, 2020), "Review", Times Higher Education