Daniel Pedoe

Daniel Pedoe
Born
Daniel Pedoe

29 October 1910
London, UK
Died27 October 1998(1998-10-27) (aged 88)
Saint Paul, Minnesota, U.S.
Scientific career
FieldsMathematician and geometer

Dan Pedoe (29 October 1910 – 27 October 1998)) was an English-born mathematician and geometer with a career spanning more than six decades.

Over his career, he authored approximately 50 research and expository papers in geometry. He also authored several books on mathematics and geometry, a few of which remained in print for decades and were translated into several languages, including the three-volume Methods of Algebraic Geometry, which he co-authored with W. V. D. Hodge, The Gentle Art of Mathematics, Circles: A Mathematical View, Geometry and the Visual Arts, and Japanese Temple Geometry Problems: San Gaku, which he co-authored with Hidetoshi Fukagawa).

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