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John Truss
BornApril 1947 (age 76–77)
Alma mater
Paisley College of Technology

University of Leeds

John Kenneth Truss (born April 1947) is a mathematician and

Journal of the London Mathematical Society until June 2003. He is the father of the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Liz Truss
.

Early life and family

John Truss was born in April 1947.[2][3] He graduated from King's College, Cambridge in 1968 and earned his PhD at the University of Leeds in 1973 for a dissertation titled "Some Results about Cardinal Numbers without the Axiom of Choice" which was supervised by Frank Drake.[4] In 1969, he married Priscilla Mary Grasby, a nurse,[5] who he had met while they were students at Cambridge.[5] Together, they have a daughter, Liz Truss, and three sons.[6] Liz Truss has described her parents' politics as "to the left of Labour".[7] Truss and his wife were both supporters of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.[8] They divorced in 2003.[5]

Truss refused to campaign with his daughter on her selection for

2010 UK general election.[9]

Career

Truss's first academic position was as a junior research fellow at the

Paisley College of Technology from 1979 to 1985.[5] In 1987, he worked at Simon Fraser University[12] in British Columbia, Canada, and later at the University of Leeds where in 1988 with Frank Drake he edited the collected papers of Logic Colloquium '86, held at the University of Hull in 1986.[13]

In 1990,

automorphisms of M?[14] In 1991, Truss published Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists which John Bayliss described in The Mathematical Gazette as "masterful and thorough" and getting "rapidly to the heart of some very exciting topics" but felt that it was more of a mathematician's book than a book for computer scientists as claimed by the author. Nonethless, Bayliss felt that the approach taken by Truss in organising and presenting his material was highly successful in condensing different strands of mathematics so that the author had shown that "discrete mathematics has come of age and is no longer a collection of disparate topics."[15]

In 1999, Truss and

Journal of the London Mathematical Society.[18] They were succeeded on 6 June 2003 by Francis Burstall and John Toland.[19]

In 2014, Sam Tarzi's Multicoloured Random Graphs: Constructions and Symmetry, prepared with Peter Cameron, made extensive use of Truss's research, noting that Truss had proved that countable universal edge-coloured graphs have simple automorphism groups. A summary of Truss's work in this area was included as appendix A(8) of Tarzi's work.[20]

Selected publications

Books

  • Truss, J. K. (1991). Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists. Addison-Wesley.
    ISBN 978-0-201-17564-6.[15]
  • Truss, J. K. (1997). Foundations of Mathematical Analysis.
    ISBN 978-0-19-853375-7
    .

Edited volumes

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ "Professor J K Truss | School of Mathematics | University of Leeds". eps.leeds.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2022. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. ^ Truss, J. K., Library of Congress. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  3. ^ Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 15 September 2022.
  4. ^ John Kenneth Truss. Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  5. ^
    ISSN 0140-0460
    . Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  6. ^ Josh Glancy; Hugo Daniel (3 September 2022). "Just where is Liz Truss from? Her incredible journey spans three countries and two continents". The Times. Archived from the original on 4 September 2022. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  7. ^ Quinn, Ben (5 September 2022). "How Liz Truss became leader of the Conservative party – a timeline". The Guardian.
  8. ^ Hawke, Jack (5 September 2022). "How Liz Truss, Britain's next prime minister, went from anti-monarchist rebel to the next Margaret Thatcher". ABC News. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
  9. ISBN 978-0-00-860578-0
    .
  10. ^ "Models of set theory containing many perfect sets", Ann. Math. Logic 7, 197–219 (1974).
  11. ^ Where in Oxford is Liz Truss from? Miranda Norris, Oxford Mail, 6 September 2022. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
  12. ^ Chan, Cheryl (6 September 2022). "New U.K. prime minister Liz Truss attended school in Burnaby". Vancouver Sun. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  13. JSTOR 20015451
    .
  14. ^ Cameron, Peter J. (1990). Oligomorphic Permutation Groups. London Mathematical Society Lecture Notes Series No. 152. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. v, 3, 86, 104. ISBN 0-521-38836-8
  15. ^
    JSTOR 3619163
    .
  16. ^
    JSTOR 20016368
    .
  17. JSTOR 797965
    .
  18. ^ "Journal of the London Mathematical Society". Archived from the original on 13 September 1999.
  19. ^ "Journal of the London Mathematical Society". www1.maths.leeds.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  20. ^ Tarzi, Sam. (2014) Multicoloured Random Graphs: Constructions and Symmetry. London: Sam Tarzi. p. xx. ISBN 9781505879957

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