David Richeson is a professor of mathematics and the John J. & Ann Curley Chair in the Liberal Arts at Dickinson College. He received a BA in mathematics at Hamilton College in 1993 and a PhD in mathematics from Northwestern University in 1998. He taught at Michigan State University for two years before starting at Dickinson College. He is interested in dynamical systems, topology, geometry, the history of mathematics, recreational mathematics, mathematics and the arts, and 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.

Location

Carlisle, PA, USA

Disciplines

• Mathematics

Affiliation

Dickinson College