About John Jardine
Born 1951. John Jardine is a Canadian mathematician.
John Frederick "Rick" Jardine (born December 6, 1951, in Belleville, Canada) is a Canadian mathematician working in the fields of homotopy theory, category theory, and number theory.
Biography Jardine obtained his Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1981, with thesis Algebraic Homotopy written under the direction of Roy Douglas. Following a research fellowship at the University of Toronto and a Dickson instructorship at the University of Chicago, he joined the Department of Mathematics at the University of Western Ontario in 1984, where he is currently an emeritus professor. In 2018 the Canadian Mathematical Society listed him in their inaugural class of fellows.
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Canadian mathematician
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