John Stillwell is an Australia

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n mathematician

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 on the faculties of the University of San Francisco

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 and Monash University

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.

He was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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 for his doctorate. He received his PhD from MIT in 1970, working under Hartley Rogers, Jr

Hartley Rogers, Jr

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. In 2002 he began teaching in San Francisco.

In 2005, Stillwell was the recipient of the Mathematical Association of America

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's prestigious Chauvenet Prize

Chauvenet Prize

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 for his article “The Story of the 120-Cell,” Notices of the AMS, January 2001, pp. 17–24.

Works

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

• Classical Topology and Combinatorial Group Theory, 1980, ISBN 0387979700
• Mathematics and Its History, 1989, 3rd edition 2010, ISBN 0387953361
• Geometry of Surfaces, 1992, ISBN 0387977430
• Elements of Algebra: Geometry, Numbers, Equations, 1994, ISBN 0387942904
• Numbers and Geometry, 1998, ISBN 0387982892
• Elements of Number Theory, 2003, ISBN 0387955879
• The Four Pillars of Geometry, 2005, ISBN 0387255303
• Yearning for the Impossible: The Surprising Truths of Mathematics, 2006, ISBN 156881254X

Awarded by Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities

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• Naive Lie Theory, 2008, ISBN 0387982892
• Roads to Infinity, 2010, ISBN 9781568814667