John Fauvel

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

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. several of which have been translated.

Edited with Jeremy Gray: The history of mathematics: A reader. Macmillan, 1987; Edited with Bengt Johansson, Frank Swetz, Otto Bekken, and Victor J. Katz: Learn from the Masters. MAA, 1994.