Jean Pedersen's Home Page

Name: Jean Pedersen
Position: Professor
Research Interests: Polyhedral Geometry, Symmetry, Number Theory and Combinatorics

Miscellaneous:

• Coordinator of the Santa Clara University Mathematics and Computer Science Talks.
• Director of the Individual Studies Program.

Recent Publications:

Books:

1. (with Peter Hilton) Build Your Own Polyhedra, Addison-Wesley (1998).
2. (with Derek Holton and Peter Hilton) Mathematical Reflections -- In a Room with Many Mirrors, 2nd Printing, Springer-Verlag NY (1998).
3. (with Derek Holton and Peter Hilton) Mathematical Vistas -- From a Room with Many Windows, Springer-Verlag NY (2002).
4. (with Peter Hilton) A Mathematical Tapestry -- Demonstrating the Beautiful Unity of Mathematics, illustrated by Sylvie Donmoyer, Cambridge University Press (2010).

Articles:

1. (with Peter Hilton and Byron Walden) Paper-folding, polygons, complete symbols, and the Euler totient function: an ongoing saga connecting geomeetry, algebra and number theory, Advances in Algebra and Combinatorics, World Sci Pub, Hackensack, J.J. (2008), 157-178.

2. (with Peter Hilton, Victor Quintanar-Zilinskas, Linda Velarde, and Byron Walden), Patterns relating to compelte symbols, Southeast Asian Bull. Math. 32 (2008), no 5, 939-950

3. (with Peter Hilton and Byron Walden) A property of complete symbol: An ongoing saga connecting geometry and number theory, Homage to a Pied Puzzler, a.K. Peters (2009), 33-52

4. (with Peter Hilton) Stop-sign theorems and binomial coefficients, Mathematical Gazette, July (2010), 247-261.
   email: jpedersen@scu.edu
   FAX: (408) 554 - 2370
   Tel: (408) 554 - 4538
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   Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
   Santa Clara University
   Santa Clara, CA 95053