Marjorie Senechal
Marjorie Senechal | |
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| Born | Marjorie Wikler 1939 (age 86–87) St. Louis, Missouri |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Illinois Institute of Technology |
| Relatives | Abraham Wikler (father) Dan Wikler (brother) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics History of science |
| Institutions | Smith College |
| Doctoral advisor | Abe Sklar |
Marjorie Lee Senechal (née Wikler, born 1939) is an American mathematician and historian of science, the Louise Wolff Kahn Professor Emerita in Mathematics and History of Science and Technology at Smith College and former editor-in-chief of the Mathematical Intelligencer, where she now edits the Mathematical Communities column. In mathematics, she is known for her work on tessellations and quasicrystals; she has also studied ancient Parthian electric batteries and published several books about silk.