📜 Post with us on Reddit
📝 Create a new article
🏭 Create a company page
🇬🇧 - in English
🇫🇷 - en Français (FR)
🇵🇹 - em Português (PT)
🇩🇪 - auf Deutsch (DE)
🇯🇵 - 日本語で (JA)
Sponsored articles

You can edit almost every page by Creating an account and confirming your email.

Bruce A. Hedman

From EverybodyWiki Bios & Wiki

Bruce A. Hedman
Born (1953-11-30) November 30, 1953 (age 72)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
🏳️ NationalityAmerican
🎓 Alma materUniversity of Washington (B.S.), Princeton University (MA, Ph.D.)
💼 Occupation
Mathematician, Professor, Pastor
📆 Years active  1981–present
Known forMathematics, Jungian psychology, Religious studies

Bruce A. Hedman (born November 30, 1953) is an American mathematician, theologian, and Presbyterian pastor. He has been a professor of mathematics at the University of Connecticut (UConn) since 1982[1] and the pastor of historic Abington Congregational Church in Pomfret Center, Connecticut since 1988. Hedman is known for his work at the intersection of mathematics, religion, and psychology, with a particular focus on synthesizing scientific and theological perspectives. He received a John Templeton Foundation award for his paper on "Cantor's Concept of Infinity".[lower-alpha 1]

Early life and education

Hedman was born on November 30, 1953, in Seattle, Washington. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics magna cum laude from the University of Washington in 1974. He continued his education at Princeton University, where he obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1979, under the supervision of Harold W. Kuhn.[4][5] His doctoral research focused on higher-dimensional polytopes and their properties.[6] While completing his doctoral studies, he also attended Princeton Theological Seminary; working with advisor Dr. James E. Loder,[7] he earned a Masters of Divinity (MDiv) with a concentration in psychology, graduating in 1980.[4][8]

Academic career

From 1981 to 1982, Hedman was an assistant professor at St. Andrews Presbyterian College in North Carolina.

Hedman has been a professor in the mathematics department at University of Connecticut (UConn) since 1982.[1] His research interests are diverse, with a focus on the history of mathematics, Jungian psychology, and mathematical applications in cognitive science. He is noted for his interdisciplinary approach, which combines mathematics with psychological and philosophical concepts.[9]

In 1998, Hedman was invited to spend a sabbatical year at the University of Edinburgh. During this term, he edited unpublished papers of Colin Maclaurin.[4][10] Hedman uncovered work that showed that Cramer's Rule — a technique for solving a simultaneous system of equations — published by Gabriel Cramer in 1750, was in fact published two years earlier in Maclaurin’s posthumous Treatise of Algebra.[11]

Notable publications in the field of mathematics by Hedman include:

Pastoral career

In 1980, after his graduation from seminary, Hedman was ordained into the Presbyterian ministry in Philadelphia. Subsequently, he served churches in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, in Union, Connecticut, and in Hampton, Connecticut.

In 1988, Hedman became the pastor of historic Abington Congregational Church. In 2018, the church honored his 30 years of service as their pastor, marking a long-standing dedication to his congregation. During his tenure, he has been involved in various outreach programs and spiritual growth initiatives. His work in the church is noted for its deep integration of faith and intellectual inquiry, bridging his roles as both a mathematician and religious leader.[15]

He has published in academic journals related to religion, theology, and the ministry, including in:

Theology, philosophy, psychology, and mathematics

Hedman's unique combination of academic and pastoral responsibilities distinguishes him as a notable figure in both the educational and religious communities. He has an interest in Jungian psychology and its intersection with religion.[9] His 1993 paper on Georg Cantor's concept of infinity has been recognized with a Templeton award,[18] as well as being cited for its insights into Cantor's set theory.[19]

Hedman has authored several published articles related to religion and mathematics, and religion and psychology, and psychology including:

  • "Cantor's Concept of Infinity: Implications of Infinity for Contingence" (March 1993), published in Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith, for which he received a John Templeton Foundation award.[18] ("...examine[s] how Cantor's transfinite set theory has contributed to an increasingly contingent world view in modern science.")
  • "Cantor and the Infinity of God", in The Infinity of God: New Perspectives in Theology and Philosophy (2019).[22] ("...philosophers and theologians to grapple exclusively with the infinity of God from historical and systematic points of view.")

In the 2000s, Hedman developed an interest in C.G. Jung. He is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies. He has written essays on Jungian psychology and religion. In 2016, he received a grant to study archetypal images in Haida art.[lower-alpha 2] The study was published in 2018:[23]

  • "Archetypal images in Haida art" (2018), published in the International Journal of Jungian Studies[9] (connects shamanic cosmology and Haida moieties)

See also

Endnotes

  1. ↑ The John Templeton foundation supports "initiatives to bring science and religion closer together."[2][3]
  2. ↑ "The Haida are a first people of British Columbia, Canada.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bruce Hedman - University of Connecticut". Retrieved February 15, 2025.
  2. ↑ Guillaume Lecointre. "La Fondation Templeton, les formes présentables du créationnisme philosophique : des initiatives "science et religions" pour dissoudre les limites entre le collectif et l'individuel, entre le public et le privé". French National Center for Scientific Research.
  3. ↑ Bailey, Sarah Pulliam (May 19, 2015). "John Templeton Jr., president of multi-billion dollar foundation invested in science and religion, has died". The Washington Post.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Bruce Hedman". Academia.edu. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Bruce A. Hedman, PhD". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved February 17, 2025.
  6. ↑ Hedman, Bruce A. (November 1978). "Representing simple polytopes by order structures (PhD dissertation)". Department of Mathematics, Princeton University. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  7. ↑ Wright, Dana R. "James Edwin Loder, Jr". Biola University. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Bruce Hedman". ORCID. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 "Bruce Hedman". Department of Mathematics, University of Connecticut. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  10. ↑ Hedman, Bruce A., ed. (2004). "Colin MacLaurin's Journal of the 'Forty-Five" (PDF). Miscellany XIII: 312–322. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Hedman, Bruce (1999). "An Earlier Date for 'Cramer's Rule'". Historia Mathematica. Elsevier BV. 26 (4): 365–368. doi:10.1006/hmat.1999.2247. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  12. ↑ "Bruce Hedman, Associate Professor of Mathematics". Google Scholar. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  13. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (1985). "The maximum number of cliques in dense graphs". Discrete Mathematics. North-Holland. 54 (2): 161–166. doi:10.1016/0012-365X(85)90077-9.
  14. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (1984). "Clique graphs of time graphs". Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B. Academic Press. 37 (3): 270–278. doi:10.1016/0095-8956(84)90059-5.
  15. ↑ "The 30th Anniversary Celebration of Pastor Hedman's Tenure". Abington Congregational Church. Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  16. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (1979). "No Middle Ground". The Expository Times. Sage Publications. 90 (12): 368–369. doi:10.1177/001452467909001207.
  17. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (March 1980). "Neither Rags Nor Riches". The Christian Century: 26.
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 Hedman, Rev. Bruce H. (March 1993). "Cantor's Concept of Infinity: Implications of Infinity for Contingence" (PDF). Perspectives on Science and the Christian Faith. 45: 1. Retrieved June 9, 2025. This paper received an award...from the John Templeton Foundation...in the area of Humility Theology.
  19. ↑ Baofu, Peter (2009). The Future of Post-Human Geometry: A Preface to a New Theory. p. 132. Search this book on
  20. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (1989). "Mathematics, Cosmology, and the Contingent Universe" (PDF). Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. 41 (2). Retrieved February 16, 2025.
  21. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (1989). "Mathematics, Cosmology, and the Contingent Universe". Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith. 41 (2): 99–103.
  22. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (2018). "Cantor and the Infinity of God". In Göcke, Benedikt Paul; Tapp, Christian. The Infinity of God: New Perspectives in Theology and Philosophy. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press. Retrieved February 16, 2025. Search this book on
  23. ↑ Hedman, Bruce (2018). "Archetypal images in Haida art". International Journal of Jungian Studies. 10 (1): 16–3. doi:10.1080/19409052.2017.1390482. Retrieved June 10, 2025. Notes on contributor: ....In the last 10 years, he has become interested in the works of C. G. Jung, and is a member of the International Association for Jungian Studies.

External links


This article "Bruce Hedman" is from Wikipedia. The list of its authors can be seen in its historical and/or the page Edithistory:Bruce Hedman. Articles copied from Draft Namespace on Wikipedia could be seen on the Draft Namespace of Wikipedia and not main one.


Retrieved from "https://en.everybodywiki.com/index.php?title=Bruce_Hedman&oldid=4987971"
License CC BY-SA 3.0
Powered by MediaWiki