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Dr Peter M. Neumann
OBE, BA, MA, DPhil, DSc
- University Lecturer (CUF) 1967 - 2004
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University Lecturer 2004 - 2008
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University Lecturer (Retired) 2008 - present
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Faculty Teaching Advisor 2009 - present
Personal Web Page
eMail:
Peter [dot] Neumann [-at-] maths [dot] ox [dot] ac [dot] uk
Contact Form
Phone Number(s):
Reception/Secretary: +44 1865 273525
Direct: +44 1865 279178
Office:
SGF7
Preferred Address:
The Queen's College
Oxford OX1 4AW
Departmental Address:
Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles'
Oxford
OX1 3LB
England
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Research Interests:
Algebra History of Algebra
Prizes, Awards and Scholarships:
Senior Mathematical and Johnson Prizes, Oxford, 1965 Lester R. Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America, 1987 Senior Whitehead Prize, London Mathematical Society, 2003 Appointed Officer in the Order of the British Empire for services to education, New Year 2008 Award for "Lifetime Achievement in Teaching", Oxford University, 2008
Recent Publications (from MathSciNet):
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MR2882171 Neumann, Peter M. The mathematical writings of Évariste Galois.
Heritage of European Mathematics. European Mathematical Society (EMS), Zürich, 2011. xii+410 pp. ISBN: 978-3-03719-104-0, 01A75 (11-03 12-03)
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MR2844475 Neumann, Peter M. A note on the triple product property for subsets of finite
groups.
LMS J. Comput. Math. 14 (2011), 232–237, 20D60
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MR2526090 (2010k:20005) Neumann, Peter M. Primitive permutation groups and their section-regular partitions.
Michigan Math. J. 58 (2009), no. 1, 309–322. (Reviewer: Martin W. Liebeck), 20B15 (68Q70)
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MR2468682 (2009k:01001) Neumann, Peter M. The history of symmetry and the asymmetry of history.
BSHM Bull. 23 (2008), no. 3, 169–177, 01A05
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MR2382539 (2009c:20041) Blackburn, Simon R.; Neumann, Peter M.; Venkataraman, Geetha Enumeration of finite groups.
Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics, 173. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007. xii+281 pp. ISBN: 978-0-521-88217-0 (Reviewer: Benjamin Klopsch), 20D60 (11N45 20-02 20D10 20D15 20E10 20F69)
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MR2238932 (2007h:01005) Neumann, Peter M. The concept of primitivity in group theory and the second memoir of
Galois.
Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60 (2006), no. 4, 379–429. (Reviewer: Lawrence Somer), 01A55 (11-03)
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MR2204262 (2006m:20003) Neumann, Peter M. Orbital equations in primitive permutation groups.
Q. J. Math. 57 (2006), no. 1, 93–103. (Reviewer: Xianhua Li), 20B15
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MR2145026 (2006b:05125) Fulman, Jason; Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. A generating function approach to the enumeration of matrices in
classical groups over finite fields.
Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 176 (2005), no. 830, vi+90 pp. (Reviewer: Robert M. Guralnick), 05E15 (05A15 20G40 20P05)
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MR2210049 (2007b:01023b) Burnside, William The collected papers of William Burnside. Vol. 2.
1900–1926.
Edited by Peter M. Neumann, A. J. S. Mann and Julia C. Tompson, and with
a preface by Neumann and Mann.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. pp. i–xvi and 789–1584. ISBN: 0-19-850587-6 (Reviewer: Godofredo Iommi Amunátegui), 01A75 (01-06 20-03)
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MR2210048 (2007b:01023a) Burnside, William The collected papers of William Burnside. Vol. 1.
Commentary on Burnside's life and work; papers 1883–1899.
With a foreword by Walter Feit and commentary on Burnside's life and
work by Peter M. Neumann, M. F. Newman, Roland M. Solomon, Charles W. Curtis,
June Barrow-Green, A. R. Forsyth, Martin G. Everett, A. J. S. Mann and Kathy
Young.
Edited by Neumann, Mann and Julia C. Tompson and with a preface by
Neumann and Mann.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. xvi+788 pp. ISBN: 0-19-850586-8 (Reviewer: Godofredo Iommi Amunátegui), 01A75 (01-06 20-03)
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MR2087092 (2005f:05004) Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. On tensor-factorisation problems. I. The combinatorial problem.
LMS J. Comput. Math. 7 (2004), 73–100 (electronic). (Reviewer: Peter Kirschenhofer), 05A05
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MR2031332 (2004m:20003) Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. Three-star permutation groups.
Special issue in honor of Reinhold Baer (1902–1979).
Illinois J. Math. 47 (2003), no. 1-2, 445–452. (Reviewer: Peter Müller), 20B15 (20B05 20B07)
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MR1985189 Ledermann, Walter; Neumann, Peter M. The life of Issai Schur through letters and other documents.
Studies in memory of Issai Schur (Chevaleret/Rehovot, 2000),
xlv–xc, Progr. Math., 210, Birkhäuser Boston, Boston, MA, 2003, 01A70
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MR1978569 (2004b:05030) Camina, Alan R.; Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. Alternating groups acting on finite linear spaces.
Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 87 (2003), no. 1, 29–53. (Reviewer: Anne Delandtsheer), 05B05 (05B25 20B25)
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MR1829488 (2002d:20018) Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. Cyclic matrices and the MEATAXE.
Groups and computation, III (Columbus, OH, 1999),
291–300, Ohio State Univ. Math. Res. Inst. Publ., 8, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001. (Reviewer: Herbert Pahlings), 20C40 (68W30 68W40)
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MR1829487 (2002e:20027) Neumann, Peter M. Nearly simple matrix groups: desiderata and suggestions.
Groups and computation, III (Columbus, OH, 1999),
281–289, Ohio State Univ. Math. Res. Inst. Publ., 8, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2001. (Reviewer: Jürgen Müller), 20C40 (20G40)
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MR1800732 (2002c:20079) Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. Cyclic matrices in classical groups over finite fields.
Special issue in honor of Helmut Wielandt.
J. Algebra 234 (2000), no. 2, 367–418. (Reviewer: Martin W. Liebeck), 20G40 (20P05)
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MR1711914 (2000h:20005) Neumann, Peter M. What groups were: a study of the development of the axiomatics of group
theory.
Bull. Austral. Math. Soc. 60 (1999), no. 2, 285–301. (Reviewer: Ronald Solomon), 20A05 (01A55 01A60 20-03)
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MR1680593 (2000d:20003) Neumann, Peter M.; Praeger, Cheryl E. On the movement of a permutation group.
J. Algebra 214 (1999), no. 2, 631–635. (Reviewer: Dmitrii V. Pasechnik), 20B05 (20B07)
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MR1709963 (2000g:20047) Neumann, Peter M.; Rowley, Peter J. Free actions of abelian groups on groups.
Geometry and cohomology in group theory (Durham, 1994),
291–295, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 252, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1998. (Reviewer: V. D. Mazurov), 20E22 (20B07)
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