Stan Wagon

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Stanley "Stan" Wagon (* 1951 in Montreal ) is a Canadian-American mathematician. He is a professor at Macalester College in Minnesota .

Stan Wagon 1986

Wagon earned his bachelor's degree in mathematics from McGill University in 1971 and received his PhD in 1975 from Dartmouth College with James Baumgartner (Decompositions of saturated ideals). He taught at Smith College and from 1990 at Macalester College.

He dealt with geometry, number theory, experimental mathematics and computer visualization in mathematics and authored a number of non-fiction books on mathematics. He built mathematical snow sculptures and a bicycle with square wheels.

His wife Joan Hutchinson (* 1945) is also a mathematics professor at Macalester College, who studies graph theory and won the Carl Allendoerfer Prize.

In 1988 he won the Lester Randolph Ford Award and in 2002 the Chauvenet Prize with Ellen Gethner and Brian Wick for A stroll through the Gaussian primes . He also published a lot in the Mathematical Intelligencer , for example a series on numerical evidence for various conjectures in 1985/86.

His hobbies are long-distance running, cross-country skiing and climbing.

Fonts

  • The Banach-Tarski Paradox , Cambridge University Press, 1985
  • with Victor Klee : Old and New Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry and Number Theory , Mathematical Association of America, 1991
    • German translation: Old and new unsolved problems in number theory and geometry of the plane, Birkhäuser 1997
  • Mathematica in Action: Problem Solving Through Visualization and Computation , WH Freeman, 1991, 3rd edition Springer Verlag 2010
  • with E. Packel Animating Calculus , TELOS, 1996
  • with Joseph DE Konhauser, Dan Velleman: Which Way Did the Bicycle Go? , Mathematical Association of America, 1996
  • with Dan Schwalbe: VisualDSolve: Visualizing Differential Equations with Mathematica , TELOS, 1997, 2nd edition with Schwalbe and Antonin Slavik at Wolfram Research, 2009
  • with David Bressoud : A Course in Computational Number Theory , Springer, 2000
  • The Mathematical Explorer , Wolfram Research, Inc., 2001
  • with Lauri, Bornemann, Waldvogel: The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing , SIAM, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stan Wagon in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
  2. ↑ for Fourteen Proofs of a Result about Tiling a Rectangle , American Mathematical Monthly, Volume 94, 1987, pp. 601-617, pdf
  3. ^ American Mathematical Monthly. Volume 105, 1998, pp. 327-337
personal data
SURNAME Wagon, Stan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wagon, Stanley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal