John Mackintosh Howie CBE FRSE (23 May 1936 – 26 December 2011) was a Scottish mathematician and prominent semigroup theorist.
[1] Howie was educated at Robert Gordon's College, Aberdeen, the University of Aberdeen and Balliol College, Oxford, where he wrote a Ph.D. thesis under the direction of Graham Higman.
In 1966 the University of Stirling was established with Walter D. Munn (fr) at head of the department of mathematics.
[2]: 290 According to Christopher Hollings, He won the Keith Prize of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1979–81.
Howie was charged with reviewing universal, comprehensive secondary education in Scotland, which was viewed as failing its students.