Peter Cameron (mathematician)

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Peter Cameron giving the 2007 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Peter Cameron giving the 2007 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester

Peter Jephson Cameron (b. 23 January 1947 in Toowoomba) is a mathematician, based at Queen Mary, University of London.

He 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.[1] Subsequently he was a Junior Research Fellow and then a Tutorial fellow at Merton College, Oxford. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1979 and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal.

He specialises in algebra and combinatorics; he has written books about combinatorics, algebra, permutation groups and logic, and about 250 academic papers.[2] He has an Erdős number of 1.[3] See also Cameron–Erdős conjecture.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Peter Cameron (mathematician) at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Recent publications of Peter J. Cameron
  3. ^ The Erdös Number Project Data Files

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