John Stillwell

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John Stillwell
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Born (1942-08-12) 12 August 1942 (age 82)
Alma mater University of Melbourne
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1970)
Awards Chauvenet Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions1970 until 2001: Monash University
2002 to date: University of San Francisco
Doctoral advisor Hartley Rogers, Jr

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

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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. 1724. [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 2 3 "John Stillwell | University of San Francisco". www.usfca.edu. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010.
  2. "John Stillwell - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org.
  3. "Hartley Rogers, Jr. - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.mathgenealogy.org.
  4. "Story of the 120-Cell" (PDF).
  5. "MAA awards page". Archived from the original on 31 May 2000. Retrieved 5 January 2008.
  6. List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 5 August 2013.
  7. Wilders, Richard J. (16 August 2010). "Review of Mathematics and Its History by John Stillwell". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  8. McCleary, J. "Review of Geometry of Surfaces by John Stillwell". Choice via Library Catalog, University of Chicago.
  9. Freudenburg, Gene (1 January 1996). "Review of Elements of Algebra". The American Mathematical Monthly . 103 (2): 186–189. doi:10.2307/2975124. JSTOR   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. JSTOR   40378384. S2CID   164895282.
  11. Biss, Daniel (June–July 2007). "Review: Yearning for the Impossible, by John Stillwell" (PDF). Notices of the AMS. 54 (6): 722–723.
  12. Stenger, Allen (6 October 2008). "Review of Naive Lie Theory by John Stillwell". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  13. Stenger, Allen (5 February 2014). "Review of The Real Numbers: An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis by John Stillwell". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  14. Hunacek, Mark (12 May 2016). "Review of Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel by John Stillwell". MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.