Bruce A. Hedman

The Reverend Prof. Bruce A. Hedman, Ph.D., has served the Abington Congregational Church, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, since 1988. He graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry in 1980. He served churches in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in Union, Connecticut and Hampton, Connecticut.

Also, Bruce Hedman has been on the faculty of the University of Connecticut since 1982 as an associate professor of mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Princeton University in 1979, studying higher dimensional polytopes under Harold W. Kuhn. [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=27176] He has written a dozen papers on iterated clique graphs and on the history of mathematics. [http://www.math.uconn.edu/~hedman/] In 1998 Hedman spent an invited sabbatical leave at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, researching unpublished manuscripts of the 18th century Edinburgh mathematician Colin Maclaurin.

Bruce Hedman was born on November 30, 1953 in Seattle, Washington. He took a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics "magna cum laude" from the University of Washington in 1974.

As a minister and mathematician, Hedman has written on theology's impact on the scientific worldview, including "Mathematics, Cosmology, and the Contingent Universe" [http://www.asa3.org/asa/PSCF/1989/PSCF6-89Hedman.html] , and "Cantor's Concept of Infinity" [http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1993/PSCF3-93Hedman.html] , for which he received an award from the John Templeton Foundation "for publication in the area of Humility Theology." [http://www.templeton.org/science_and_religion/humbleapproach.asp]

As a piper, Hedman often performs on the Great Highland Bagpipe for weddings. [http://www.weddingbagpipes.com] Bruce and his wife Sandy sing traditional Irish, Scottish, and maritime music as the Celtic folk duo Tara's Thistle [http://www.tarasthistle.org] . Their programs are popular with libraries in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, as they tell the stories and history behind the folksongs they present. In 2005 Tara's Thistle was voted into Connecticut's "CONNTours Directory of Performing Artists" [http://www.ct.gov/cct/cwp/view.asp?A=2077&Q=295494]

Bruce Hedman is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the Mathematical Association of America, and the American Scientific Affiliation.

External links

* [http://www.abingtonchurch.org/ Abington Congregational Church]
* [http://www.hartford.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut, Hartford Campus]
* [http://www.cultureandtourism.org/cct/ Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism "Directory of Performing Artists"]
* [http://www.tarasthistle.org/ Celtic Folk duo Tara's Thistle]
* [http://www.weddingbagpipes.com/ Bagpipes for Your Wedding]