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John Mighton, OC (born October 2, 1957) is a Canadian mathematician, author, and playwright.

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Education and career

Mighton was born in Hamilton, Ontario on (1957-10-02)October 2, 1957 and lives in Toronto, Ontario with partner Pamela Sinha and daughter Chloe.^{[citation needed]}

In 1998 Mighton founded a highly successful math tutoring program.[1] In 2002, based on the methods[2] developed in the tutoring program, he founded JUMP (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) Math, a charitable organization that works to educate students in mathematics, and to promote those methods in the education system. Mighton points out that any child who learns language is capable of learning math.^{[citation needed]}

As a playwright, Mighton has been the recipient of the Siminovitch Prize in Theatre, two Governor General’s Literary Awards for Drama, the Dora Award, and the Chalmers Award.^{[citation needed]} His plays include Possible Worlds, The Little Years, Body & Soul, Scientific Americans, A Short History of Night, and Half Life.^{[citation needed]}

Mighton completed a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Toronto and was awarded an NSERC fellowship for postdoctoral research in knot and graph theory.^{[citation needed]} He is a Fellow of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences and has taught mathematics at the University of Toronto.^{[citation needed]} Mighton also lectured in philosophy at McMaster University, where he received a Masters in philosophy.^{[citation needed]}

In 1997, Mighton played an assistant math professor in the critically acclaimed film Good Will Hunting.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and honors

• 10th Annual Egerton Ryerson Award for Dedication to Public Education (2016)[3]
• Schwab Foundation Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2015)[4]
• Ernst & Young Social Entrepreneur of the Year (2014)[5]
• Officer of the Order of Canada ^[1] (2010)
• Ashoka Fellow (2004)^{[citation needed]}

Publications

• The Myth of Ability (2003)
• All Things Being Equal: Why Math Is the Key to a Better World (2020)

Filmography

• Good Will Hunting (1997): Tom - Lambeau's Teaching Assistant^{[citation needed]}
• Hokees (Short Film) (2000)^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• John Mighton at IMDb

На других языках

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[ru] Майтон, Джон

Джон Майтон (англ. John Mighton; род. 6 октября 1957 года, Гамильтон, Онтарио) — канадский писатель, драматург, сценарист, математик, педагог, предприниматель и менеджер; создатель и бессменный руководитель JUMP Math (Junior Undiscovered Math Prodigies) — программы и организации обучающей детей, испытывающих трудности в математике; работает также в Институте Филдса (англ. Fields Institute)[1][2][3][4].

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