10 Facts About Jackie Stedall

Jacqueline Anne "Jackie" Stedall was a British mathematics historian.

Jackie Stedall wrote nine books, and appeared on radio on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time programme.

Jackie Stedall's PhD focused upon John Wallis' 1685 work Treatise of Algebra.

Jackie Stedall later became a fellow of the college, and created a third-year module on the history of mathematics at the University of Oxford.

In 2002, Jackie Stedall became the managing editor of the British Society for the History of Mathematics's newsletter, which later became the BSHM Bulletin journal.

Jackie Stedall appeared multiple times on the BBC Radio 4 programme In Our Time.

Jackie Stedall wrote a 2008 book Mathematics Emerging which was used as the primary textbook for her course.

Jackie Stedall co-edited and published the Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics.

In 2012, Jackie Stedall wrote the book The History of Mathematics: A Very Short Introduction, part of the Oxford University Press' Very Short Introduction series of books.

Whilst suffering from cancer, Jackie Stedall joined the Painswick Friends' meeting house, which "helped her find peace with her illness".