Peter Cameron (mathematician) explained

Peter J. Cameron
Birth Place:	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Fields:	algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory
Workplaces:	University of St Andrews Queen Mary, University of London University of Oxford Bedford College, London
Alma Mater:	University of Queensland University of Oxford
Doctoral Advisor:	Peter M. Neumann
Doctoral Students:	Eric Lander Dugald Macpherson Sarah Rees^[1]
Notable Students:	Benedict Gross
Awards:	Whitehead Prize, 1979 Euler Medal, 2003 Forder Lecturer, 2008

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 the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar,^[2] 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 350 academic papers.^[4] In 1988, 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 2008, he was selected as the Forder Lecturer of the LMS and New Zealand Mathematical Society.^[5] In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.^[6]

Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Lint . Jacobus Hendricus van . Graph theory, coding theory, and block designs . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge, Eng. . 1975 . 978-1-107-08708-8 . 846492893.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Parallelisms of Complete Designs . Cambridge University Press . 10 June 1976 . 978-0-521-21160-4 . 10.1017/cbo9780511662102.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Oligomorphic Permutation Groups . Cambridge University Press . 29 June 1990 . 978-0-521-38836-8 . 10.1017/cbo9780511549809.
Book: Cameron, P. J. . Lint . J. H. van . Designs, Graphs, Codes and their Links . Cambridge University Press . 19 September 1991 . 978-0-521-41325-1 . 10.1017/cbo9780511623714.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Combinatorics : topics, techniques, algorithms . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge . 1994 . 0-521-45133-7 . 29910262.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Sets, Logic and Categories. . Springer London . London . 1998 . 978-1-4471-0589-3 . 958523400.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Permutation Groups . Cambridge University Press . 4 February 1999 . 978-0-521-65302-2 . 10.1017/cbo9780511623677.
Book: Cameron, Peter J. . Introduction to algebra . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 2008 . 978-0-19-156622-6 . 213466141.