John Stillwell

John C. Stillwell ( born August 12, 1942 in Melbourne) is an Australian mathematician.

Life

Stillwell studied at the University of Melbourne (Master 's degree 1965) and in 1970 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) PhD. He then taught from 1970 at the Monash University in Melbourne and is since 2002 professor at the University of San Francisco.

Stillwell has emerged through several textbooks and various essays in which he taught mathematics by the historical method over their history, especially " Mathematics and its history ." In 2005 he received the Chauvenet Prize for "The Story of the 120 -Cell". He also translated classical works, among others, Richard Dedekind, Henri Poincaré, Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, Max Dehn.

He also deals with combinatorial group theory and its geometric applications.

Stillwell was Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Zurich 1994 ( Number theory as a core mathematical discipline ). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • 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
  • Abe Shenitzer: Mathematical Evolutions, Mathematical Association of America, 2002, ISBN 0-88385-536-4
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