John O'Connor's Home Page

Personal


Born 31st July 1945 in Luton, Bedfordshire, England.
Degrees: MA, DPhil (Oxford)

Married to Jean

Children: Paul, Elspeth, Helen, James.

Research interests


A lapsed topologist, I am interested in Computational Algebra.

I am interested in the History of Mathematics and at present am supervising two research students in this area.


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With Edmund Robertson I am one of the maintainers of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive on the World Wide Web.    

A list of publications is available at this link.

Teaching


I have retired from teaching after forty years here at St Andrews.

Some notes from courses that I have taught are available below.

Part of the first year Mathematics course: A pdf version of the MISS booklet (Mathematical induction, sequences and series).

Part of the first year Mathematical Information Technology course: A pdf version of the Introduction to Maple booklet.

The analysis part of the second year Algebra and Analysis course (a web version).

An honours course on Geometry and topology (a web version).

An honours course on Geometry (a web version).

An honours course on Metric and topological spaces (a web version).

An honours course on Rings and fields (a web version).

An honours course on Number theory (a pdf booklet).

An honours course on Symbolic Computation (a pdf booklet).

To contact me


e-mail: joc@st-andrews.ac.uk

Phone from UK : 01334 46 3716
Fax (work): 01334 46 3748

Phone (outside UK) : (+44) 1334 46 3716
Fax (work): (+44) 1334 46 3748

Work address:


School of Mathematics and Statistics
University of St Andrews
Mathematical Institute
North Haugh, St Andrews
Fife KY16 9SS, Scotland.

JOC February 2011


The URL of this page is:

http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~john/index.html