Peter Cameron (mathematician)

Peter J. Cameron
Peter J. Cameron
Born	23 January 1947 (age 74); Toowoomba, Queensland
Nationality	Australian
Alma mater	University of Queensland; University of Oxford
Awards	Whitehead Prize, 1979; Euler Medal, 2003; Forder Lecturer, 2008[1]
	Scientific career
Fields	algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory
Institutions	University of St Andrews; Queen Mary, University of London; University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. Neumann
Doctoral students	Eric Lander; Dugald Macpherson; Sarah Rees[2];

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 half-time Professor of Mathematics at the University of St Andrews, and Emeritus Professor at Queen Mary University of London.

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.[3] 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 250 academic papers.[4] He posed the Cameron–Erdős conjecture with Paul Erdős.

He was awarded the London Mathematical Society's Whitehead Prize in 1979 and is joint winner of the 2003 Euler Medal. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.[5]

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