James Tanton

James Stuart Tanton (an haife shi a ranar 1 ga watan Agusta, shekara ta 1966) masanin lissafi ne kuma malamin lissafi na Australiya-Amurka. Ya lashe kyautar Kidder Faculty Prize saboda koyarwarsa a Cibiyar Nazarin Lissafi ta St. Mark, masanin kimiyya a Ƙungiyar Lissafi ta Amurka,  marubucin littattafai sama da goma kan lissafi, tsarin karatu, da ilimi, kuma mai kirkirar bidiyo kan lissafi a YouTube. Ya zuwa watan Agustan shekara ta 2024 kusan bidiyonsa 360 sun sami ra'ayoyi sama da 2,100,000.

 Ilimi da sana'a 
Tanton ya sami B.A. a cikin lissafi daga Jami'ar Adelaide, kuma ya sami Ph.D. a cikin ilmin lissafi daga Jami'ar Princeton a cikin 1994, tare da rubutun a cikin algebraic topology mai taken A Homological Fibration for Gl [infinity]. Ya koyar a Sabon Kwalejin, Kwalejin St. Mary ta Maryland, da Kwalejin Merrimack  kafin ya yanke shawarar hakan, don samun amincewa tare da malaman makarantar sakandare da yake fatan yin aiki tare, dole ne ya koyar da makarantar sakandare kansa. Tanton ya koyar a Makarantar St. Mark a Southborough, Massachusetts, daga 2002 zuwa 2011. 

A matsayinsa na mai gabatarwa da ke aiki tare da Maths Week Ireland, Tanton ya yi aiki don ƙirƙirar sha'awar lissafi a makarantu a bangarorin biyu na Ireland. A halin yanzu shi masanin ziyara ne a Ƙungiyar Lissafi ta Amurka a Washington, DC.

 Rayuwa ta mutum 
Tun bayan kammala karatunsa daga Jami'ar Adelaide a shekarar 1988, Tanton yana zaune a Amurka. Ya zauna a can tare da iyalansa; matarsa kuma ƙwararriyar masaniyar taurari ce Lindy Elkins-Tanton, wacce aka haifa a Ithaca, New York.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Rayayyun mutane
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1966