John Stillwell
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Australian English Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".
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:
- Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory, 1980, Template:Isbn
- Mathematics and Its History, 1989, pbk reprint of 2nd edition 2002; 3rd edition 2010, Template:Isbn[7]
- Geometry of Surfaces, 1992, Template:Isbn; [8] 2012 pbk reprint of 1st edition
- Elements of Algebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations, 1994,[9] Template:Isbn
- Numbers and Geometry, 1998, Template:Isbn
- Elements of Number Theory, 2003, Template:Isbn
- The Four Pillars of Geometry, 2005,[10] Template:Isbn
- Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics, 2006, Template:Isbn[11]
- Naive Lie Theory, 2008, Template:Isbn[12]
- Roads to Infinity, 2010, Template:Isbn
- The Real Numbers: An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis, 2013, Template:Isbn[13]
- Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel, 2016, Template:Isbn[14]
- Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out, 2018, Template:Isbn
- A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers, 2019, Template:Isbn
- The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics, 2022, Template:Isbn
Selected articles
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
References
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b c Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "Citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Pages with script errors
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
- Academic staff of Monash University
- University of San Francisco faculty
- Australian mathematicians
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Australian textbook writers
- Academics from Melbourne
- Group theorists
- Topologists
- University of Melbourne alumni