Peter Cameron (mathematician)
Peter J. Cameron | |
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Doctoral advisor | Peter M. Neumann |
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Other notable students | Benedict Gross |
Peter Jephson Cameron
Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London
.
Cameron received a B.Sc. from the
Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College
, London.
Work
Cameron specialises in
permutation groups, and logic, and has produced over 350 academic papers.[4] In 1988, he posed the Cameron–Erdős conjecture with Paul Erdős
.
Honours and awards
He was awarded the
Euler Medal. In 2008, he was selected as the Forder Lecturer of the LMS and New Zealand Mathematical Society.[5] In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[6]
Books
- Cameron, Peter J.; Lint, Jacobus Hendricus van (1975). Graph theory, coding theory, and block designs. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 846492893.
- Cameron, Peter J. (10 June 1976). Parallelisms of Complete Designs. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-21160-4.
- Cameron, Peter J. (29 June 1990). Oligomorphic Permutation Groups. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-38836-8.
- Cameron, P. J.; Lint, J. H. van (19 September 1991). Designs, Graphs, Codes and their Links. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-41325-1.
- Cameron, Peter J. (1994). Combinatorics : topics, techniques, algorithms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. OCLC 29910262.
- Cameron, Peter J. (1998). Sets, Logic and Categories. London: Springer London. OCLC 958523400.
- Cameron, Peter J. (4 February 1999). Permutation Groups. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-65302-2.
- Cameron, Peter J. (2008). Introduction to algebra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. OCLC 213466141.
Notes
- ^ "Peter Cameron's students". Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- Rhodes Trust. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Peter Michael Neumann". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Peter Cameron's publications". Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships". London Mathematical Society. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
- ^ "Professor Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
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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