Biography:John Stillwell

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Short description: Australian mathematician

John Stillwell
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Born (1942-08-12) 12 August 1942 (age 81)
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D, 1970)
AwardsChauvenet Prize (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Institutions1970 until 2001: Monash University
2002 to date: University of San Francisco
Doctoral advisorHartley Rogers, Jr

John Colin Stillwell (born 1942) is an Australian mathematician on the faculties of the University of San Francisco and Monash University.[1]

Biography

He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctorate.[1] He received his PhD from MIT in 1970, working under Hartley Rogers, Jr,[2] who had himself worked under Alonzo Church.[3] From 1970 until 2001, he taught at Monash University back in Australia and in 2002 began teaching in San Francisco .[1]

Honors

In 2005, Stillwell was the recipient of the Mathematical Association of America's prestigious Chauvenet Prize for his article "The Story of the 120-Cell,"[4] Notices of the AMS, January 2001, pp. 17–24.[5] In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[6]

Works

Books

Stillwell is the author of many textbooks and other books on mathematics including:

Selected articles

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "John Stillwell | University of San Francisco". Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100929112357/http://www.usfca.edu/facultydetails.aspx?id=4294969536. 
  2. "John Stillwell - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=44223. 
  3. "Hartley Rogers, Jr. - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=8021. 
  4. "Story of the 120-Cell". https://www.ams.org/notices/200101/fea-stillwell.pdf. 
  5. "MAA awards page". http://www.maa.org/Awards/chauvent.html. 
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 5 August 2013.
  7. Wilders, Richard J. (August 16, 2010). "Review of Mathematics and Its History by John Stillwell". https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/mathematics-and-its-history. 
  8. "Geometry of Surfaces by John Stillwell (Review by Choice Review, J. McCleary)". https://catalog.lib.uchicago.edu/vufind/Record/4841050/Reviews. 
  9. Freudenburg, Gene (1 January 1996). "Review of Elements of Algebra". The American Mathematical Monthly 103 (2): 186–189. doi:10.2307/2975124. 
  10. Hunacek, Mark (1 January 2007). "Review of The Four Pillars of Geometry". The Mathematical Gazette 91 (521): 375–378. doi:10.1017/S0025557200181951. 
  11. Biss, Daniel (June–July 2007). "Review: Yearning for the Impossible, by John Stillwell". Notices of the AMS 54 (6): 722–723. https://www.ams.org/notices/200706/tx070600722p.pdf. 
  12. Stenger, Allen (October 6, 2008). "Review of Naive Lie Theory by John Stillwell". https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/naive-lie-theory. 
  13. Stenger, Allen (February 5, 2014). "Review of The Real Numbers: An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis by John Stillwell". https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/the-real-numbers-an-introduction-to-set-theory-and-analysis. 
  14. Hunacek, Mark (May 12, 2016). "Review of Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel by John Stillwell". https://maa.org/press/maa-reviews/elements-of-mathematics-from-euclid-to-g-del.