John Fauvel (21 July 1947 – 12 May 2001) was a British mathematician and historian of mathematics.^[1][2]

Fauvel was fromScotland, where his father was aprincipal.Ian Blair was a cousin.

John attendedTrinity College, Glenalmond. He then studied mathematics at theUniversity of Essex, where he graduated in 1970, and at theUniversity of Warwick, where he obtained his master's degree in 1973. In 1977, he obtained hisMPhil from the University of Warwick under the supervision of David Orme Tall, with a thesis entitledFuzzy Theory.^[3]

From 1974, Fauvel worked at theOpen University. From 1991 to 1994, he was President of theBritish Society for the History of Mathematics and he also edited its newsletter. From 1992 to 1996, he directed an international study group on the relations between history and mathematics pedagogy, which is affiliated with theInternational Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI), and in 2000 he co-directed a major study of ICMI. In 1998, he was invited lecturer by theNew Zealand Mathematical Society.^[1] Fauvel was a visiting scholar in the Mathematics Department atColorado College on several occasions, including one on aFulbright Fellowship during the Winter and Spring of 1999.

Fauvel died on 12 May 2001 of complications from liver disease.^[1]

Fauvel is known as an editor of books on thehistory of mathematics,^[4] several of which have been translated.

• Fauvel, John;Flood, Raymond;Wilson, Robin, eds. (2003).Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-851187-6.Fauvel, John; Flood, Raymond; Wilson, Robin J. (2006).2006 2nd edition. Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-929893-9.^[5]
• Fauvel, John;Flood, Raymond;Wilson, Robin, eds. (2000).Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-852309-2.^[6]2013 2nd edition.ISBN 9780199681976.^[7]
• Fauvel, John;Flood, Raymond;Wilson, Robin, eds. (1993).Möbius and his band: Mathematics and astronomy in nineteenth-century Germany.Oxford University Press.ISBN 019853969X.
• Fauvel, John;Flood, Raymond; Shortland, Michael;Wilson, Robin, eds. (1988).Let Newton be!.Oxford University Press.ISBN 0-19-853924-X.^[8]
• Edited withJeremy Gray:The history of mathematics: A reader. Macmillan, 1987;1997 pbk edition. Mathematical Association of America. 16 March 1987.ISBN 0333427912.
• Edited with Bengt Johansson, Frank Swetz, Otto Bekken, andVictor J. Katz:Learn from the Masters. MAA, 1994.Swetz, Frank (1995).1995 pbk edition. Cambridge University Press.ISBN 0-88385-703-0.
• Fauvel, John (December 1992). "Remembering Charles Babbage (1791–1871)".Interdisciplinary Science Reviews.17 (4):304–308.Bibcode:1992ISRv...17..304F.doi:10.1179/ISR.1992.17.4.304.
• Fauvel, J. (1990).Mathematics through history: a resource guide. York: QED Books.ISBN 0946544719; 47 pages{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Chant, Colin; Fauvel, John, eds. (1980).Darwin to Einstein: historical studies on science and belief. Longman.ISBN 0582491576.

• Parker, Noel (January 2002)."John Fauvel, 1947–2001".Radical Philosophy (111)..

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