John D. P. Meldrum

John David Philip Meldrum (18 July 1940 in Rabat, Morocco; died 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British mathematician. Meldrum was an algebraist and his research was mostly related to group theory. ^[1]

Biography

Meldrum was born in Rabat, Morocco. ^[1]

In 1964 he was appointed as a supernumerary fellow and college lecturer in mathematics at Emmanuel College. ^[1] Meldrum received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1967 on the topic of "Central Series in Wreath Products". His supervisor was Derek Roy Taunt. ^[2]

In 1969 he became a lecturer for mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and in 1982 he was appointed there as a senior lecturer. ^[1]

He died on 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh after a battle with the Parkinson's disease. ^[1]

Books

As an author

• John D. P. Meldrum (1985). Near-rings and Their Links with Groups. Longman Higher Education. ISBN   978-0273087014. ^[3]
• John D. P. Meldrum (1995). Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN   9780582026933. ^[4]

As a translator

Meldrum translated the following book by Nicolas Bourbaki:

• Nicolas Bourbaki (1994). Elements of the History of Mathematics. Translated by John D. P. Meldrum. Springer Verlag. ISBN   978-0387193762.

References

1. Meyer, J. H.; Maxson, C.J. (19 August 2021). "John David Philip Meldrum, 1940–2018". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 53 (4): 1249–1262. doi: 10.1112/blms.12535 . S2CID   238790553.
2. John D. P. Meldrum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Reviews of Near-rings and Their Links with Groups:
   • Homer F. Bechtell, Zbl   0658.16029
   • Howard E. Bell, MR   0854275
   • Günter F. Pilz, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., doi : 10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15549-2
4. Reviews of Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups:
   • U. Knauer, Zbl   0833.20001
   • Piroska Lakatos, MR   1379113