Stan Wagon
Stanley Wagon is a Canadian-American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at Macalester College in Minnesota. He is the author of multiple books on number theory, geometry, and computational mathematics, and is also known for his snow sculpture.
Biography
Wagon was born in Montreal, to Sam and Diana Wagon. His sister Lila Hope-Simpson died in 2021. Wagon did his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1971. He earned his Ph.D. in 1975 from Dartmouth College, under the supervision of James Earl Baumgartner. He married mathematician Joan Hutchinson, and the two of them shared a single faculty position at Smith College and again at Macalester, where they moved in 1990.Books
- The Banach–Tarski Paradox
- Old and New Unsolved Problems in Plane Geometry and Number Theory
- Animating Calculus
- Which Way Did the Bicycle Go?
- VisualDSolve: Visualizing Differential Equations with Mathematica.
- A Course in Computational Number Theory
- The Mathematical Explorer
- ''The SIAM 100-Digit Challenge: A Study in High-Accuracy Numerical Computing''
Other activities
and for having given the name to the 420 Arch, a natural stone arch in southern Utah.