John Fauvel Explained

John Fauvel
Birth Date:1947 7, df=y
Birth Place:Scotland
Citizenship:United Kingdom
Field:Mathematics
History of mathematics
Work Institutions:Open University
Alma Mater:University of Essex
University of Warwick
Doctoral Advisor:David Orme Tall
Thesis Title:Fuzzy Theory
Thesis Year:1976
Known For:President of the British Society for the History of Mathematics

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

Education

Fauvel was from Scotland, where his father was a principal.Ian Blair was a cousin.

John attended Trinity College, Glenalmond. He then studied mathematics at the University of Essex, where he graduated in 1970, and at the University of Warwick, where he obtained his master's degree in 1973. In 1977, he obtained his MPhil from the University of Warwick under the supervision of David Orme Tall, with a thesis entitled Fuzzy Theory.

Career

From 1974, Fauvel worked at the Open University. From 1991 to 1994, he was President of the British 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 the International Commission for Mathematical Education (ICMI), and in 2000 he co-directed a major study of ICMI. In 1998, he was invited lecturer by the New Zealand Mathematical Society. Fauvel was a visiting scholar in the Mathematics Department at Colorado College on several occasions, including one on a Fulbright Fellowship during the Winter and Spring of 1999.

Fauvel died on 12 May 2001 of complications from liver disease.

Publications

Fauvel is known as an editor of books on the history of mathematics,[3] several of which have been translated.

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Jeremy . Gray . Jeremy Gray . John Fauvel – Chronicler of the history of mathematics . . 22 June 2001 .
  2. J. J. . Gray . Jeremy Gray . Obituary: John Grant Fauvel (1947–2001) . . 35 . 4 . July 2003 . 565–569 . 10.1112/S0024609302001674 . . free .
  3. Web site: John Fauvel . . . 14 July 2021 .
  4. Web site: Shulman, Bonnie. November 21, 2006. review of Music and Mathematics: From Pythagoras to Fractals. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  5. Web site: Atzema, Eisso. January 3, 2002. review of Oxford Figures: 800 Years of the Mathematical Sciences. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America.
  6. Web site: Gouvêa, Fernando Q.. Fernando Q. Gouvêa. March 23, 2014. review of Oxford Figures: Eight Centuries of the Mathematical Sciences, 2nd edition. MAA Reviews, Mathematical Association of America .
  7. 10.1017/S0007087400026649 . Review of Let Newton Be edited by John Fauvel, Raymond Flood, Michael Shortland, & Robin Wilson. 1989 . Brackenridge . J. Bruce . The British Journal for the History of Science . 22 . 4 . 475–477 . 144558093 .

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