Peter Cameron (mathematician)

**Peter J. Cameron**
Peter J. Cameron
	; Peter Cameron giving the 2007 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Born	23 January 1947; Toowoomba, Queensland
Nationality	Australian
Fields	algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory
Institutions	Queen Mary, University of London, University of Oxford
Alma mater	University of Queensland, University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. Neumann
Doctoral students	Eric S. Lander; H. Dugald Macpherson
Notable awards	Whitehead Prize, 1979; Euler Medal, 2003

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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 Professor of Mathematics 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.^[2] Subsequently he was a Junior Research Fellow and then a Tutorial fellow at Merton College, Oxford. 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.^[3] He has an Erdős number of 1.^[4] and is the Cameron in the Cameron–Erdős conjecture.

Oligomorphic permutation groups by Peter Jephson Cameron, 1990 ISBN 0521388368

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Name	Cameron, Peter Jephson
Alternative names
Short description	Australian mathematician
Date of birth	23 January 1947
Place of birth	Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Date of death
Place of death

Peter J. Cameron
Peter Cameron giving the 2007 Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw lecture at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Born	23 January 1947 Toowoomba, Queensland
Nationality	Australian
Fields	algebra, group theory, combinatorics, coding theory, model theory
Institutions	Queen Mary, University of London, University of Oxford
Alma mater	University of Queensland, University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	Peter M. Neumann
Doctoral students	Eric S. Lander H. Dugald Macpherson^[1]
Notable awards	Whitehead Prize, 1979 Euler Medal, 2003