John D. P. Meldrum
John David Philip Meldrum (18 July 1940 in Rabat, Morocco; died 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British Mathematician. Meldrum was an algebraist and his research was mostly related to group theory.[1]
Biography
[edit]Meldrum was born in Rabat, Morocco.[1]
In 1964 he was appointed as a Supernumerary Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics at Emmanuel College.[1] Meldrum received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967 on the topic of "Central Series in Wreath Products". His supervisor was Derek Roy Taunt.[2]
In 1969 he became a lecturer for mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and in 1982 he was appointed there as a senior lecturer.[1]
He died on 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh after a battle with the Parkinson's disease.[1]
Books
[edit]As an author
[edit]- John D. P. Meldrum (1985). Near-rings and Their Links with Groups. Longman Higher Education. ISBN 978-0273087014.[3]
- John D. P. Meldrum (1995). Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 9780582026933.[4]
As a translator
[edit]Meldrum translated the following book by Nicolas Bourbaki:
- Nicolas Bourbaki (1994). Elements of the History of Mathematics. Translated by John D. P. Meldrum. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0387193762.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Meyer, J. H.; Maxson, C.J. (19 August 2021). "John David Philip Meldrum, 1940–2018". Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society. 53 (4): 1249–1262. doi:10.1112/blms.12535. S2CID 238790553.
- ^ John D. P. Meldrum at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of Near-rings and Their Links with Groups:
- Homer F. Bechtell, Zbl 0658.16029
- Howard E. Bell, MR0854275
- Günter F. Pilz, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc., doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1987-15549-2
- ^ Reviews of Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups:
- U. Knauer, Zbl 0833.20001
- Piroska Lakatos, MR1379113
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