In Love with Geometry

Abstract

Dan Pedoe was born in London, England, in 1910, and after serving Magdalene College, Cambridge, as Scholar and Bye-fellow, received a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1937. He held posts at the University of Southhampton, the University of Birmingham, the University of London, Khartoum University (Sudan), the University of Singapore, Purdue University, and the University of Minnesota, where he is Professor Emeritus. He held a Senior Fulbright Fellowship for Australian travel and received an MAA Lester Ford Award. He has written 50 or so research and expository papers in geometry and is the author or co-author of many books on various aspects of geometry, some translated into several languages. The monumental three-volume Methods of Algebraic Geometry with W. V. D. Hodge was recently republished by the Cambridge University Press. His other books are Circles: A Mathematical View, The Gentle Art of Mathematics, A Geometric Introduction to Linear Algebra, An Introduction to Projective Geometry, Geometry: A Comprehensive View, Geometry and the Visual Arts, and, most recently, Japanese Temple Geometry Problems, with H. Fukagawa.