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Biography
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John Stillwell
Professor: Mathematics
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John C. Stillwell is Professor of Mathematics. He was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia and educated at Melbourne High School and the University of Melbourne. He received an M. Sc. from the University of Melbourne in 1965 and a Ph. D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970.
After working for 31 years at Monash University in Melbourne, John joined the Mathematics Department at USF in 2002. He is interested in many aspects of mathematics, but particularly its history in the 19th and 20th centuries. These interests are reflected in the books he has written, on topics from number theory to geometry, and his translations of classic works by Dirichlet, Dedekind, Poincare and Dehn. His best known work to date is Mathematics and Its History (Springer-Verlag 1989 and 2nd edition 2002).
He has been an invited speaker at several international conferences, including the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich in 1994, and meetings of the American Mathematical Society in Baltimore in 1998 and Melbourne in 1999. In 2005 he was awarded the Chauvenet Prize for mathematical exposition by the Mathematical Association of America.
John Stillwell teaches at USF in Fall semesters.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5054
Fax: (415) 422-5747
Email: stillwell@usfca.edu
Office: Harney Science Center
Office Hours: TR 2:00-3:30pm
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