Jean Pedersen | Academic Influence

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Jean Pedersen

Mathematics

#809

World Rank

#1450

Historical Rank

#351

USA Rank

Measure Theory

#4145

World Rank

#4883

Historical Rank

#1168

USA Rank

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Jean Pedersen's Degrees

PhD Mathematics Princeton University
Masters Mathematics Princeton University

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According to Wikipedia, Jean J. Pedersen was an American mathematician and author particularly known for her works on the mathematics of paper folding. Education and career Pedersen was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of an ophthalmologist and a teacher. She studied home economics changing to a double major in mathematics and physics as an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, before becoming a graduate student in mathematics at the University of Utah under the supervision of E. Allen Davis.

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Jean Pedersen's Published Works

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Catalan Numbers, Their Generalization, and Their Uses (1991) (267)
Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers (1997) (183)
Geometry turned on! : dynamic software in learning, teaching, and research (1998) (71)
Mathematical Reflections: In a Room with Many Mirrors (1998) (30)
The Euler Characteristic and Polya's Dream (1996) (18)
Approximating Any Regular Polygon by Folding Paper (1983) (18)
Overcoming Math Anxiety.@@@Mind Over Math. (1980) (18)
The Faces of the Tri-Hexaflexagon (1997) (15)
Looking into Pascal's Triangle: Combinatorics, Arithmetic, and Geometry (1987) (15)
Mathematical Vistas: From a Room with Many Windows (2002) (14)
ON CERTAIN ARITHMETIC PROPERTIES OF FIBONACCI AND LUCAS-NUMBERS (1995) (14)
EXTENDING THE BINOMIAL COEFFICIENTS TO PRESERVE SYMMETRY AND PATTERN (1989) (14)
Folding regular star polygons and number theory (1985) (13)
Euler's Theorem for Polyhedra: A Topologist and Geometer Respond (1994) (11)
ON LUCASIAN NUMBERS (1995) (10)
Geometry: the unity of theory and practice (1983) (10)
On partitions, surjections, and Stirling numbers (1994) (9)
Descartes, Euler, Poincaré, Pólya and Polyhedra (1982) (9)
Geometry: A Gateway to Understanding (1993) (7)
Mathematics, Models, and Magz, Part I: Patterns in Pascal's Triangle and Tetrahedron (2012) (7)
Sneaking Up On a Group (1972) (6)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics (2010) (6)
On Problems with Solutions Attainable in More Than One Way. (1984) (5)
ON THE COMPLEMENTARY FACTOR IN A NEW CONGRUENCE ALGORITHM (1987) (5)
On certain algorithms in the practice of geometry and the theory of numbers (1985) (5)
Some Isonemal Fabrics on Polyhedral Surfaces (1981) (5)
On generalised Fibonaccian and Lucasian numbers (2006) (4)
The general quasi-order algorithm in number theory (1986) (4)
Relating Geometry and Algebra in the Pascal Triangle, Hexagon, Tetrahedron, and Cuboctahedron Part I: Binomial Coefficients, Extended Binomial Coefficients and Preparation for Further Work (1999) (4)
Platonic Solids From Strips and Clips. (1974) (4)
Symmetry in mathematics (1986) (3)
Visualising parallel divisions of space (1978) (3)
Comments on Grünbaum’s article (1984) (3)
SOME WHIMSICAL GEOMETRY (1972) (3)
Combinatorics, group theory and geometric models (1981) (3)
Plaited Platonic Puzzles. (1973) (3)
Fear no more : an adult approach to mathematics (1983) (3)
PASCALIAN TRIANGLES AND EXTENSIONS TO HEXAGONS (1990) (3)
Duality and the descartes deficiency (1989) (3)
On the Reflective Property of Ellipses (1980) (2)
“Invertible” Polyhedron Models. Distributed by Snyder Engineering (1998) (2)
Baked Beans and Spaghetti (1994) (2)
Going Down the Drain (1997) (2)
The Challenge of Classifying Polyhedra (1980) (2)
The Challenge of Classifying Polyhedra (1980) (2)
Braided rotating rings (1978) (2)
Stop-sign theorems and binomial coefficients* (2010) (2)
On Factoring 2k±1 (1994) (2)
On residue classes of sums of random integers (1992) (1)
99 Points of Intersection: Examples-Pictures-Proofs (2006) (1)
Pascal, Euler,Triangles,Windmills,... (1997) (1)
Casting out Nines Revisited (1981) (1)
On generalized symbols, orders and quasi-orders (1985) (1)
A conjecture on sums of random integers (1990) (1)
Some arithmetical connections between folding numbers and generalized Fibonacci and Lucas numbers (1993) (1)
Geometry Is Alive and Well: The Coxeter Symposium in Toronto. (1980) (1)
Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions (2012) (1)
Greeting cards and fractals (1997) (1)
Writing a rational number in Egyptian form (2002) (1)
Mysterious Movable Models (2012) (1)
N-Gami, a Variation of Origami. (1976) (1)
Relating Geometry and Algebra in the Pascal Triangle, Hexagon, Tetrahedron, and Cuboctahedron Part II: Geometry and Algebra in Higher Dimensions: Identifying the Pascal Cuboctahedron (1999) (1)
A Far Nicer Arithmetic (1997) (1)
An Introduction to the Mathematics of Fractal Geometry (1997) (1)
PAPER-FOLDING, POLYGONS, COMPLETE SYMBOLS, AND THE EULER TOTIENT FUNCTION: AN ONGOING SAGA CONNECTING GEOMETRY, ALGEBRA, AND NUMBER THEORY (2008) (1)
Six Recipes for Making Polyhedra (2013) (1)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Contents (2010) (1)
Mathematics, Models, and Magz, Part II: Investigating Patterns in Pascal's Simplex (2014) (0)
Index to the Mathematical Gazette (2006) (0)
"Invertible" Polyhedron Models. (1998) (0)
Quilts and Other Real-World Decorative Geometry (1997) (0)
Some of Our Own Reflections (1997) (0)
A deplorable fallacy – and a minor fault (1994) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Some golden threads – Constructing more dodecahedra (2010) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Combinatorial and symmetry threads (2010) (0)
Mysterious Movable Models (2012) (0)
Letters to the editor (2003) (0)
Testing Understanding and Understanding Testing. (1985) (0)
Not the Last of Fermat (2002) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Another thread – 1-period paper-folding (2010) (0)
Collapsoids (1975) (0)
New Integer Sequences Arising From 3-Period Folding Numbers (2016) (0)
Paper-Folding, Polyhedra-Building, and Number Theory (2002) (0)
On exceptional systems of random integers. (1995) (0)
Seeing the idea (1998) (0)
Models for Rational Number Bases. (1975) (0)
An Algorithm for Multiplication in Modular Arithmetic (1986) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Preface (2010) (0)
Mathematics, Truth and Integrity (1991) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: A historical thread – Involving the Euler characteristic, Descartes' total angular defect, and Pólya's dream (2010) (0)
Hair and Beyond (1997) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Continuing the paper-folding and number-theory threads (2010) (0)
Fibonacci and Lucas Numbers: Their Connections and Divisibility Properties (2002) (0)
Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century: Mad Tea Party Cyclic Partitions (2012) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Group theory – The faces of the trihexaflexagon (2010) (0)
Are Four Colors Really Enough (2002) (0)
Let's Meet at the Congress (1986) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Combinatorial and group-theoretical threads – Extended face planes of the Platonic solids (2010) (0)
A Simple Proof of Series Convergence (1987) (0)
Index to the Mathematical Gazette (1978) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: A geometry and algebra thread – Constructing, and using, Jennifer's puzzle (2010) (0)
Star Theorem Patterns Relating to 2n-gons in Pascal's Triangle — and More (2012) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Flexagons – A beginning thread (2010) (0)
Paper-Folding and Number Theory (1997) (0)
Pascal, Fibonacci, and geometry (2016) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: The polyhedron thread – Building some polyhedra and defining a regular polyhedron (2010) (0)
A Property of Complete Symbols (2009) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: More combinatorial threads – Collapsoids (2010) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: A polyhedral geometry thread – Constructing braided Platonic solids and other woven polyhedra (2010) (0)
The unity of mathematics: a casebook comprising practical geometry number theory and linear algebra (2003) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: References (2010) (0)
On the basic character of residue classes (1989) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Returning to the number-theory thread – Generalized quasi-order and coach theorems (2010) (0)
88.54 Thoughts on an optimistic expectation of Abbe Mersenne (2004) (0)
Two Recurrence Relations for Stirling Factors (1999) (0)
From Binomial to Trinomial Coefficients and Beyond (2002) (0)
Paradoxes in Mathematics (2002) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Constructing dipyramids and rotating rings from straight strips of triangles (2010) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: Tying some loose ends together – Symmetry, group theory, homologues, and the Pólya enumeration theorem (2010) (0)
A Mathematical Tapestry: More paper-folding threads – 2-period paper-folding (2010) (0)
Another "Zip The Strip". (1972) (0)
A number-theory thread – Folding numbers, a number trick, and some tidbits (2010) (0)

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