Peter Cameron (mathematician)
| Peter J. Cameron | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
23 January 1947 (age 69) Toowoomba, Queensland |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Fields | algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory |
| Institutions |
University of St Andrews Queen Mary, University of London University of Oxford |
| Alma mater |
University of Queensland University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter M. Neumann |
| Doctoral students |
Eric S. Lander H. Dugald Macpherson[1] |
| Notable awards |
Whitehead Prize, 1979 Euler Medal, 2003 Forder Lecturer, 2008[2] |
Peter Jephson Cameron (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London.
Cameron received a B.Sc. from the University of Queensland and a D.Phil. in 1971 from University of Oxford, with Peter M. Neumann as his supervisor.[3] Subsequently he was a Junior Research Fellow and later a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College, London. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1979 and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal.
Work
Cameron specialises in algebra and combinatorics; he has written books about combinatorics, algebra, permutation groups, and logic, and has produced over 250 academic papers.[4] He posed the Cameron–Erdős conjecture with Paul Erdős.
Books
- with J H van Lint: Graph Theory, Coding Theory and Block Designs (1975)
- Parallelisms of Complete Designs (1976)[5]
- Oligomorphic Permutation Groups (1990)
- with J H van Lint: Designs, Graphs, Codes and their Links (1991)
- Combinatorics: Topics, Techniques, Algorithms (1994)
- Sets, Logic and Categories (1999)
- Permutation Groups (1999)
- Introduction to Algebra (first edition) (1998)
- Introduction to Algebra (second edition) (2008)
Notes
- ↑ Peter Camerons DPhil/PhD students
- ↑ LMS-NZM Forder and Aitken Lectureships
- ↑ Peter M. Neumann at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Recent publications of Peter J. Cameron
- ↑ Kantor, William M. (1978). "Review: Parallelisms of complete designs, by Peter J. Cameron". Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 84 (3): 451–453. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1978-14489-9.
References
External links
- Home page at Queen Mary University of London
- Home page at University of St Andrews
- Peter Cameron's 60th birthday conference
- Theorems by Peter Cameron at Theorem of the Day
- Peter Cameron's blog
- Peter Cameron at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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