Faculty Profile
David Richeson
Professor of Mathematics; John J. & Ann Curley Chair in the Liberal Arts (2000)
Contact Information
Tome Scientific Building
717-245-1744
Bio
He is interested in dynamical systems, topology, geometry, the history of mathematics, recreational mathematics, mathematics and the arts, and promoting expository mathematical writing. He is the author of two books, Tales of Impossibility: 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2019) and Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology (Princeton University Press, 2008). He was the editor of Math Horizons (2014–2019), the undergraduate magazine of the Mathematical Association of America, and he currently writes for Quanta Magazine.
Education
- B.A., Hamilton College, 1993
- M.S., Northwestern University, 1994
- Ph.D., 1998