Jean Pedersen

Jean J. Pedersen (Sep 17, 1934–Jan 1, 2016)[1][2] was an American mathematician and author particularly known for her works on the mathematics of paper folding.

[2] After completing her master's degree, she moved to San Jose, California, following her husband who worked for IBM.

She joined the faculty at the Santa Clara University on a part-time basis in 1966, but shifted to full-time and was promoted to full professor in 1996.

[2] Her discovery that the platonic solids could be braided from strips of paper led to Martin Gardner writing about it in the September, 1971 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American.

[3] Pedersen's books include: She and Peter Hilton also translated The Golden Section and Symmetry by Hans Walser from German into English.