Peter James Lorimer
Peter James Lorimer (16 April 1939 – 7 February 2010) was a New Zealand mathematician. His research concerned group theory, combinatorics, and Ramsey theory.
Peter James Lorimer | |
|---|---|
| Born | 16 April 1939 |
| Died | 7 February 2010 (aged 70) Auckland, New Zealand |
| Alma mater | McGill University |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Canterbury, University of Auckland |
| Thesis | A study of T2-groups. (1963.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans Schwerdtfeger |
Academic career
Born in Christchurch, Lorimer did a BSc / MSc in mathematics at the University of Auckland and won a Commonwealth Scholarship to do a PhD at McGill University in Montreal, which he completed in 1963 under the supervision of Hans Schwerdtfeger.[1] He returned to New Zealand to lecture, first at University of Canterbury and then at University of Auckland.[2][3]
gollark: Yes, exactly.
gollark: What people would *like*, I suppose, is "each actual person gets some fixed amount of coins per day", but there's no way to enforce that cryptographically.
gollark: Yes, I agree, although the alternative seems to be pretty much be "burn electricity and computing power for new stuff".
gollark: Did it just start with some big pool of them in one account?
gollark: I mean, yes, faucets, but how do new coins come into existence?
References
- Peter James Lorimer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- "In memoriam: Peter James Lorimer (16.04.1939 – 7.02.2010) – MathsDept". Math.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
- "Peter James Lorimer « Obituaries « Fellowship « The Academy « Our Organisation « Royal Society of New Zealand". Royalsociety.org.nz. Retrieved 30 July 2014.
External links
Authority control  |
|
|---|
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.