Background
Wagon was born in Montreal, and did his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1971.
mathematician university professor
Wagon was born in Montreal, and did his undergraduate studies at McGill University in Montreal, graduating in 1971.
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in 1975 from Dartmouth College, under the supervision of James Earl Baumgartner.
He is the author of multiple books on number theory, geometry, and computational mathematics, and is also known for his snow sculpture. Wagon is also known for riding a bicycle with square wheels, for his mathematical snow sculptures, and for having given the name to the 420 Architecture, a natural stone arch in southern Utah.