John Sydney Croucher is an Australian statistician and Professor of Actuarial Studies and Business Analytics in the Macquarie Business School at

Macquarie University Macquarie University ( ) is a public research university based in Sydney, Australia, in the suburb of Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of S ...

in Sydney Australia. He has written around 33 books, 120 research papers, and 500 newspaper articles. His recent works include
The Kid from Norfolk Island
'
Woodslane
2014),

'
Amberley
2018),

'
Amberley
2019) and ''A Concise History of New South Wales''
Woodslane
2020). Croucher has written many textbooks on mathematics and statistics fo
McGraw-Hill Australia
including
Quantitative Analysis for Management 6e
' (2020)
''Mathematics and Statistics for Business 6e'' (revised)
(2016) and
Statistics: Making Business Decisions
' (2001), Croucher has also written many trade books, including ''Love b
Numbers
'
Woodslane
2011),
The Secret Language
' (

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, 2010).
Number Crunch
' (

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, 2006),
Eighteen Months on the Toilet
'
Woodslane
2010 ),
637 Gorillas on the Run
'
Woodslane
2010),
Exam Scams
' (

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, 1996) and
Great Frauds and Everyday Scams
' (

, 1997) Croucher has PhD degrees in history from both

and the

University of Technology Sydney The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Although its origins are said to trace back to the 1830s, the university was founded in its current form in 1988. As of 2021 ...

. He also holds a PhD in Mathematics and Statistics from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

in the United States. Croucher also has an

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from

Divine Word University Divine Word University is a national Catholic university in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the newest tertiary institutions in the country. It was established as a university by an Act of Parliament in 1996. The university is ecumenical and coedu ...

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. and was the recipient of the Prime Minister's Australian University Teacher of the Year award in 2013. He is also a renowned speaker and the subject of many articles. Between 200 and 2012 he was the author of the popular ''Number Crunch'' column for the Good Weekend in the

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and

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in Melbourne. He is married to fellow academic Rosalind Croucher and they both became Members of the Order of Australia as part of the

2015 Australia Day Honours The 2015 Australia Day Honours were announced on 26 January 2015 by the Governor General of Australia, Sir Peter Cosgrove. The Australia Day Honours are the first of the two major annual honours lists, announced on Australia Day (26 January), with ...

. John Croucher is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and a Fellow of the

Australian Mathematical Society The Australian Mathematical Society (AustMS) was founded in 1956 and is the national society of the mathematics profession in Australia. One of the Society's listed purposes is to promote the cause of mathematics in the community by representing t ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Croucher, John Living people Australian statisticians Macquarie University alumni Academic staff of Macquarie University University of Technology Sydney alumni University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni Members of the Order of Australia Year of birth missing (living people)