John Brittain Little (born 1956) is a retired American mathematician, the author of several books in algebraic geometry and the history of mathematics.
He is distinguished professor emeritus in the departments of mathematics and computer science at the College of the Holy Cross.
He majored in mathematics at Haverford College, graduating in 1976, and completed a Ph.D. at Yale University in 1980.
[2] His dissertation, Translation Manifolds and the Converse of Abel's Theorem, was supervised by Bernard Saint-Donat.
[9] Little received the 2020 Paul R. Halmos – Lester R. Ford Award for his paper "The many lives of the twisted cubic", published in The American Mathematical Monthly.