Peter Cameron (mathematician)

For other people with the same name, see Peter Cameron (disambiguation).

Peter J. Cameron
Born	23 January 1947 (1947-01-23) (age 78) Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Education	University of Queensland (BSc) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Awards	Whitehead Prize (1979) Euler Medal (2003) Forder Lecturer (2008)
Scientific career
Fields	algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory
Institutions	University of St Andrews Queen Mary, University of London University of Oxford Bedford College, London
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. Neumann
Doctoral students	Eric Lander Dugald Macpherson Sarah Rees [1]
Other notable students	Benedict Gross

Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews ^[2] and Queen Mary University of London.

Education

Cameron received a B.Sc. from the University of Queensland and a D.Phil. in 1971 from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, ^[3] with Peter M. Neumann as his supervisor. ^[4] Subsequently, he was a Junior Research Fellow and later a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College, London.

Work

Cameron specialises in algebra and combinatorics; he has written books about combinatorics, algebra, permutation groups, and logic, and has produced over 350 academic papers. ^[5] In 1988, he posed the Cameron–Erdős conjecture with Paul Erdős.

Honours and awards

He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1979 and Senior Whitehead Prize in 2017, and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal. In 2008, he was selected as the Forder Lecturer of the LMS and New Zealand Mathematical Society. ^[6] In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. ^[7]

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

Books

• Cameron, Peter J.; Lint, Jacobus Hendricus van (1975). Graph theory, coding theory, and block designs. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-1-107-08708-8. OCLC   846492893.
• Cameron, Peter J. (10 June 1976). Parallelisms of Complete Designs. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511662102. ISBN   978-0-521-21160-4.
• Cameron, Peter J. (29 June 1990). Oligomorphic Permutation Groups. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511549809. 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. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511623714. ISBN   978-0-521-41325-1.
• Cameron, Peter J. (1994). Combinatorics : topics, techniques, algorithms. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN   0-521-45133-7. OCLC   29910262.
• Cameron, Peter J. (1998). Sets, Logic and Categories. London: Springer London. ISBN   978-1-4471-0589-3. OCLC   958523400.
• Cameron, Peter J. (4 February 1999). Permutation Groups. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/cbo9780511623677. ISBN   978-0-521-65302-2.
• Cameron, Peter J. (2008). Introduction to algebra. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-156622-6. OCLC   213466141.

Notes

1. "Peter Cameron's students" . Retrieved 16 June 2021.
2. "Prof Peter Cameron Emeritus Professor" . Retrieved 9 April 2025.
3. "Rhodes Scholar Database". Rhodes Trust . Retrieved 16 June 2021.
4. "Peter Michael Neumann". Mathematics Genealogy Project . Retrieved 16 June 2021.
5. "Peter Cameron's publications" . Retrieved 16 June 2021.
6. "LMS-NZMS Forder and Aitken Lectureships". London Mathematical Society . Retrieved 16 June 2021.
7. "Professor Peter Jephson Cameron FRSE". Royal Society of Edinburgh . Retrieved 16 June 2021.

References

• Short biography

See also

• Cameron–Fon-Der-Flaass IBIS theorem

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