John Stillwell
Born	(1942-08-12)12 August 1942 (age 83) Melbourne,Australia
Alma mater	University of Melbourne Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., 1970)
Awards	Chauvenet Prize (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Mathematics
Institutions	1970 until 2001:Monash University 2002 to date:University of San Francisco
Doctoral advisor	Hartley Rogers, Jr

John Colin Stillwell (born 1942) is an Australianmathematician on the faculties of theUniversity of San Francisco andMonash University.^[1]

He was born inMelbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to theMassachusetts Institute of Technology for his doctorate.^[1] He received his PhD from MIT in 1970, working underHartley Rogers, Jr,^[2] who had himself worked underAlonzo Church.^[3] From 1970 until 2001, he taught at Monash University back in Australia and in 2002 began teaching inSan Francisco.^[1]

In 2005, Stillwell was the recipient of theMathematical Association of America's prestigiousChauvenet Prize for his article "The Story of the120-Cell,"^[4]Notices of the AMS, January 2001, pp. 17–24.^[5] In 2012, he became a fellow of theAmerican Mathematical Society.^[6]

Stillwell is the author of many textbooks and other books on mathematics including:

• Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory, 1980,ISBN 0-387-97970-0
  • 2012 pbk reprint of 1993 2nd editionISBN 978-0-387-97970-0
• Mathematics and Its History, 1989,pbk reprint of 2nd edition 2002; 3rd edition 2010,ISBN 0-387-95336-1^[7]
• Geometry of Surfaces, 1992,ISBN 0-387-97743-0;^[8]2012 pbk reprint of 1st edition
• Elements of Algebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations, 1994,^[9]ISBN 0-387-94290-4
• Numbers and Geometry, 1998,ISBN 0-387-98289-2
• Elements of Number Theory, 2003,ISBN 0-387-95587-9
• The Four Pillars of Geometry, 2005,^[10]ISBN 0-387-25530-3
• Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics, 2006,ISBN 1-56881-254-X^[11]
• Naive Lie Theory, 2008,ISBN 0-387-98289-2^[12]
• Roads to Infinity, 2010,ISBN 978-1-56881-466-7
• The Real Numbers: An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis, 2013,ISBN 978-3319015767^[13]
• Elements of Mathematics: From Euclid to Gödel, 2016,ISBN 978-0691171685^[14]
• Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out, 2018,ISBN 978-0691177175
• A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers, 2019,ISBN 978-1108610124
• The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics, 2022,ISBN 978-0691234366

• Stillwell, John (1982)."The word problem and the isomorphism problem for groups".Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. (N.S.).6 (1):33–56.doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-1982-14963-1.MR 0634433.
• Stillwell, John (1983)."Efficient computations in groups and simplicial complexes".Transactions of the American Mathematical Society.276 (2):715–727.doi:10.1090/s0002-9947-1983-0688973-8.MR 0688973.
• Lenard, Andrew; Stillwell, John (1983)."An algorithmically unsolvable problem in analysis".Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.88 (1):129–130.doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1983-0691292-2.MR 0691292.
• Stillwell, John (1987)."The occurrence problem for mapping class groups".Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.101 (3):411–416.doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1987-0908639-5.MR 0908639.
• Stillwell, John (January 2001)."The Story of the 120-Cell"(PDF).Notices of the AMS.48 (1):17–25.
• Stillwell, John (2012)."Poincaré and the early history of 3-manifolds"(PDF).Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. (N.S.).49 (4):555–576.doi:10.1090/s0273-0979-2012-01385-x.

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• Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
• Academic staff of Monash University
• University of San Francisco faculty
• Australian mathematicians
• Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
• Australian textbook writers
• Academics from Melbourne
• Group theorists
• Topologists
• University of Melbourne alumni

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