Julian Havil

Julian R. Havil (born September 11, 1952 ) is a British math teacher and author.

Havil holds a PhD in Mathematics from Oxford University and has been a Masters in Mathematics at Winchester College since 1976 , where he taught for 33 years. He is known from various popular science mathematics books. In two books ( Nonplussed and Impossible ) he deals with paradoxical solutions to problems or solutions that run counter to common sense, which can nevertheless be justified strictly mathematically (for example the Banach-Tarski Paradox and Benford's Law in Impossible ).

Fonts

• Gamma- Euler's constant, prime number beaches and the Riemann hypothesis , Springer Verlag 2007, ISBN 3540484957 (English original: Gamma - exploring Eulers constant, Princeton University Press 2003, foreword Freeman Dyson ), review by James Case, SIAM, pdf
• Perplexed ? ! - Mathematical proof of unbelievable ideas , Springer Verlag 2009, ISBN 3540782354 (English original: Nonplussed- mathematical proof of implausible ideas, Princeton University Press 2007)
• That doesn't exist - mathematical riddles , Spektrum Verlag 2009, ISBN 3827423066 , (English original: Impossible? Surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums, Princeton University Press 2008)
• The Irrationals, Princeton University Press, 2012, ISBN 9780691143422
• John Napier: Life, Logarithms, and Legacy , Princeton University Press 2014
• Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic . Princeton University Press, 2019, ISBN 9780691197784

Web links

• Havil Defying gravity- the uphill roller , Plus Magazine 2006, also covered in his book Stunned , with a short biography