Angle Trisection, the Heptagon, and the Triskaidecagon

Dr. Gleason graduated from Yale in 1942 and then served four years . . j in the Navy. After the war he went to Harvard as a Junior Fellow in the ;;, Society of Fellows. Except for an interlude in the Navy from 1950-52, he has been at Harvard ever since. He now holds the Hofis Professorship of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy, a chair that was endowed in 1727. Although he has no doctor's degree, he says that George Mackey was the equivalent of his dissertation supervisor. He has worked in several areas including topological groups, Banach algebras, finite geometries, and coding theory. He received the Newcomb Cleveland prize of the AAAS in 1952. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and is a former president of the American Mathematical Society.