John Stillwell
John Colin Stillwell (born August 12, 1942 in Melbourne ) is an Australian mathematician .
Life
Stillwell graduated from the University of Melbourne (Masters degree in 1965) and received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1970. He then taught at Monash University in Melbourne from 1970 and has been a professor at the University of San Francisco since 2002 .
Stillwell has emerged through several textbooks and various articles in which he teaches mathematics according to the historical method about their history, in particular "Mathematics and its history". In 2005 he received the Chauvenet Prize for "The Story of the 120-Cell". He also translated classical works by Richard Dedekind , Henri Poincaré , Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet and Max Dehn, among others .
He also deals with combinatorial group theory and its geometric applications.
Stillwell was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Zurich in 1994 ( Number theory as a core mathematical discipline ). He is a fellow of the American Mathematical Society .
Fonts
- Mathematics and its History , Springer, 1989, 2nd edition 2002, ISBN 0-387-95336-1
- The Four Pillars of Geometry , Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 2005, ISBN 0-387-25530-3
- Classical Topology and combinatorial group theory , Springer Graduate Texts in Mathematics, 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 0-387-97970-0
- Naive Lie Theory , Springer Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics, 2008, ISBN 978-0-387-78214-0
- Elements of Algebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations , Springer, 1994, 2001, ISBN 0-387-94290-4
- Geometry of Surfaces , Springer Universitext, 1992, ISBN 3-540-97743-0
- Numbers and Geometry , Springer, 1998, ISBN 0-387-98289-2
- Elements of Number Theory , Springer, 2003, ISBN 0-387-95587-9
- Yearning for the Impossible: the surprising truths of mathematics , AK Peters, 2006, ISBN 1-56881-254-X
- with Abe Shenitzer : Mathematical Evolutions, Mathematical Association of America, 2002, ISBN 0-88385-536-4
- The Story of the 120 cell (PDF file; 280 kB), Notices of the AMS 48, 2001, pp. 17-24
- Truth, Proof, Infinity. A mathematical journey into the multifaceted effects of infinity , Springer Spectrum 2014
Web links
- Homepage at the University of San Francisco
- John Stillwell in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Notices of the AMS, January 2001
- ^ Theory of algebraic integers, Cambridge University Press
- ↑ Sources of hyperbolic geometry, American Mathematical Society 1996, there also translations by Felix Klein , Eugenio Beltrami
- ^ Lectures on Number Theory, Lectures on Number Theory
- ^ Papers on Group theory and topology, 1987
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stillwell, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stillwell, John Colin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 12, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |