Peter Cameron

Who is Peter Cameron?

Peter Jephson Cameron 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. 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.