Person
Giles, John Robilliard (1833 - 2024)
- Born
- 31 December 1833
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Died
- 30 December 2024
Australia - Occupation
- Mathematician and Teacher
Summary
John Giles was a mathematician who gained widespread recognition for his research into functional analysis, particularly differentiability conditions on the norm of a Banach space and their consequences. He wrote 65 papers in international journals, and books. For nearly 30 years Giles taught mathematics at the University of Newcastle. With innovative curriculum design and the introduction of new topics he made significant contributions to the development of the degree course in mathematics. He was recognised as an inspiring teacher. At the University he held a number of positions in the Staff Association and the Retired Lecturers Association. For over 30 years he was a member of the local government Blackbutt Reserve Committee.
Details
Chronology
- 1867 - 1969
- Career position - Temporary Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
- 1955
- Education - Diploma of Education, University of Sydney
- 1955
- Education - BA (hons), University of Sydney
- 1959
- Education - Licentiate in Theology from the Australian College of Theology
- February 1959 - 1965
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, Newcastle University College
- 1960 - ?
- Career position - Member, Australian Mathematical Society
- 1965 - 1969
- Career position - Lecturer in Mathematics, University of Newcastle
- 1969 - 1974
- Career position - Senior Lecturer (Mathematics), University of Newcastle
- 1971
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh
- January 1972 - May 1972
- Career position - Postdoctoral Fellow at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
- 1974 - 1993
- Career position - Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
- 1982 - 1983
- Career position - Vice-President, Australian Mathematical Society
- 31 December 1993
- Life event - Retired
- 1994 - 2004?
- Career position - Honorary Associate Professor, University of Newcastle
- 2001 - 2003
- Career position - Joint editor, Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society
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Published resources
Books
- Giles, J. R., Real analysis: an introductory course (Sydney: New York: Wiley & Sons, 1972), 171 pp. Details
- Giles, J. R., Introduction to the analysis of metric spaces (Cambridge: Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1987), 257 pp. Details
Journal Articles
- Anderson, R. S. (Bob), Giles, J. R.; and Joseph, G. A. (Gerry), 'Reynold (Reyn) Gilbert Keats 15 February 1918 - 1 April 2014', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 41 (5) (2014), 297-302. Details
- Giles, J. R.; and Wallis, Jennifer Seberry, 'George Szekeres', Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series A, 21 (1976), 385-92. Details
- Giles, John R., 'Pavel Karel Smrz 10 December 1937 to 26 July 2014', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 41 (4) (2014), 233-5. Details
- Giles, John Robilliard, 'Differentiability of Lipschitz functions on a space with uniformly Gateaux differentiable norm', Journal of convex analysis, 13 (3) (2006), 751-8. Details
- Sims, Brailey and Sciffer, Scott, 'John Robilliard Giles 31 December 1933 to 30 December 2024', Gazette of the Australian Mathematical Society, 52 (1) (2025), 31-3. Details
Helen Cohn
Created: 15 May 2025