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Marjorie Senechal

was born 85 years ago

18 July 1939

Marjorie Senechal is an American mathematician who worked on tessellations and quasicrystals. She won the Mathematical Association of America's Carl B Allendoerfer Award for excellence in expository writing in Mathematics Magazine for her article, Which Tetrahedra Fill Space? Her book American Silk 1830-1930 won the Millia Davenport Publication Award of the Costume Society of America.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Senechal/