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 one of the members of the St Andrews team which has taken over the development of the GAP system for computer algebra and am a member of CIRCA the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Computational Algebra.

Teaching

This year I am teaching a course on beginning MAPLE as part of the first-year Mathematical Information Technology course.

I taught a course on Geometry and topology in the second semester.
Notes on this course are available at this link.

Teaching software

With Edmund Robertson I am one of the maintainers of the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive on the World Wide Web.
This has won many awards for its breadth of cover and innovation.

To contact me

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

Phone from UK : 01334 46 3701
Fax (work): 01334 46 3748
Phone (outside UK) : (+44) 1334 46 3701
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 April 2006

The URL of this page is:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~john/index.html