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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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MR2915378 Pending Neumann, Peter M. The editors and editions of the writings of Évariste Galois.
Historia Math. 39 (2012), no. 2, 211–221. 01A85
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MR2896439 Indexed Neumann, Peter M. Galois and his groups.
Eur. Math. Soc. Newsl. No. 82 (2011), 29–37. 01A70
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MR2866722 Indexed Neumann, Peter M. Some classic and nearly classic problems on varieties of groups.
Groups St Andrews 2009 in Bath. Volume 2,
479–487, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 388, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2011. 20-02 (20E10)
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MR2882171 Reviewed 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 (Reviewer: E. J. Barbeau) 01A75 (01A55 11-03 12-03)
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MR2844475 Reviewed Neumann, Peter M. A note on the triple product property for subsets of finite
groups.
LMS J. Comput. Math. 14 (2011), 232–237. (Reviewer: F. Pérez Monasor) 20D60
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MR2526090 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Indexed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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 Reviewed 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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