Cathy Gorini, PhD

Dr. Catherine A. Gorini is a recognized expert in geometry and an award-winning teacher. Her PhD in mathematics is from the University of Virginia, where she specialized in algebraic topology.  On the faculty of Maharishi International University for forty years, she is and is a certified teacher of the Transcendental Meditation technique. Dr. Gorini is the editor of Geometry at Work, a collection of papers on applied geometry published by the Mathematical Association of America and the author of two books on mathematics and numerous papers on mathematics and Consciousness-Based education. Her teaching awards include the 2001 Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics given by the Iowa Section of the Mathematical Association of America.

Publications

GEOMETRY FOR THE ARTIST: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CONSCIOUSNESS-BASED COURSE

Master Math Probability, Cengage, 2011.

The Facts of File Geometry Handbook, Facts on File, 2009. (revised edition)

“Further Steps: Geometry Beyond High School,” New England Mathematics Journal, May 2003.

“The Natural Role of Mathematics in the Sciences: How Maharishi’s Vedic Science An- swers the Question of the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Sciences,” Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal, 2001.

Geometry at Work, editor, MAA Notes, Mathematical Association of America, 2000.