{{short description|American mathematician}} {{use mdy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Michael Stillman | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = Michael Stillman 2006.jpg | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = Michael Stillman in 2006 at Oberwolfach | birth_name = Michael Eugene Stillman | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1957|03|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | home_town = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | fields = Mathematics | workplaces = Cornell University | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = {{plainlist}} * University of Illinois (BA) * Harvard University (PhD) {{endplainlist}} | thesis_title = Construction of Holomorphic Differential Forms on the Moduli Space of Abelian Varieties | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = 1983 | doctoral_advisor = David Mumford | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = Hal Schenck | notable_students = | known_for = Macaulay2 | influences = | influenced = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_alt = | website = {{URL|https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mike/}} | footnotes = }}
'''Michael Eugene Stillman''' (born March 24, 1957) is an American mathematician working in computational algebraic geometry and commutative algebra. He is a professor of mathematics at Cornell University. He is known for being one of the creators (with Daniel Grayson) of the Macaulay2 computer algebra system.
==Education and career== Michael Stillman completed his PhD at Harvard University in 1983 under the direction of David Mumford. He had postdoctoral positions at the University of Chicago, Brandeis University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before moving to a permanent position at Cornell University in 1987.
Stillman is best known for his work on computer algebra systems. In 1983, he began work with Dave Bayer on the Macaulay computer algebra system, which they continued to improve until 1993. To get beyond several limitations in the design of Macaulay, Stillman and Daniel Grayson began work on the Macaulay2 system in 1993.<ref>{{cite book | last = Eisenbud | first = David | last2 = Grayson | first2 = Daniel | last3 = Stillman | first3 = Michael | last4 = Sturmfels | first4 = Bernd | title = Computations in algebraic geometry with Macaulay 2 | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin New York | year = 2002 | isbn = 3-540-42230-7 | url = https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/Book/ |mr=1949544}}</ref> Macaulay2 remains in active development as of 2019,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://faculty.math.illinois.edu/Macaulay2/|title=Macaulay2}}</ref> and has been cited in over 4350 articles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=5544339878767751576|title=Macaulay2 citations on Google Scholar|access-date=September 21, 2019}}</ref>
Stillman has over 30 mathematical publications, and has advised 11 PhD students.<ref>{{MathGenealogy|id=28530|title=Michael Eugene Stillman}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://pi.math.cornell.edu/~mike/CV2011.pdf|title=Michael Stillman's CV (dated 2011)|website=Michael Stillman's homepage|access-date=September 14, 2019}}</ref>
==Awards and honors== * In 2015 Stillman was selected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society for his work in symbolic computation<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= Mar 2015 |title=2015 Class of the Fellows of the AMS |url=https://www.ams.org/profession/ams-fellows/rnoti-p285.pdf |journal=Notices of the American Mathematical Society |volume=62 |issue=3 |pages=285–287 |access-date=September 11, 2019}}</ref> (such as that on Macaulay2). * Stillman was recognized for his teaching by Business Insider in a 2013 feature on the Best Colleges in America,<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Jacobs|first=Peter|date=November 7, 2013|title=The 10 Best Professors At Cornell University|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-10-best-professors-at-cornell-university-2013-10 |access-date=September 11, 2019|magazine=Business Insider}}</ref> where he was named as one of the top 10 professors at Cornell.
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