Nationality Australian Name Peter Cameron | Role Mathematician | |
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Institutions University of St Andrews
Queen Mary, University of London
University of Oxford Alma mater University of Queensland
University of Oxford Doctoral students Eric S. Lander
H. Dugald Macpherson Notable awards Whitehead Prize, 1979
Euler Medal, 2003
Forder Lecturer, 2008 Education University of Oxford, University of Queensland Awards Whitehead Prize, Euler Medal Fields Group theory, Combinatorics, Model theory Books Combinatorics: Topics - Techniqu, Introduction to Algebra, Designs - graphs - codes - an, Graphs - codes - and designs, Sets - logic - and categories Similar People Jacobus Hendricus van Lint, Peter M Neumann, Charles Colbourn, Eric Lander, Francis Collins | ||
Doctoral advisor Peter M. Neumann | ||
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Peter Jephson Cameron (born 23 January 1947) is an Australian mathematician who works in group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, and model theory. He is currently half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London.
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Cameron 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. Subsequently, he was a Junior Research Fellow and later a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and also lecturer at Bedford College, London. He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1979 and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal.
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Cameron specialises in algebra and combinatorics; he has written books about combinatorics, algebra, permutation groups, and logic, and has produced over 250 academic papers. He posed the Cameron–Erdős conjecture with Paul Erdős.