Cameron Leigh Stewart

Cameron Leigh Stewart (* around 1949) is a Canadian mathematician who studies number theory.

Cameron L. Stewart, Oberwolfach 2012

Stewart studied at the University of British Columbia with a bachelor's degree in 1971 and at McGill University with a master's degree in 1972 and received his doctorate in 1976 with Alan Baker at Cambridge University ( Divisor properties of arithmetical sequences ). In Cambridge in 1974 he received the TJ Knight Prize. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam in 1976/77 and at IHES in 1977/78 . In 1978 he became Assistant Professor , 1982 Associate Professor and 1986 Professor at the University of Waterloo . From 2003 he has a Canada Research Chair and in 2005 he became a University Professor .

He was visiting scholar in Basel, Geneva, Ulm, Leiden, Bordeaux, the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), the IHES, the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, the Erwin Schrödinger Institute in Vienna, the University of Colorado Boulder and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology .

He published, among other things, on the ABC presumption . Stewart published several times with Paul Erdős and therefore has Erdős number 1.

In 2008 he became a Fellow of the Fields Institute and in 1989 a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Fonts

with Robert Tijdeman : On the Oesterlé-Masser conjecture , monthly books for mathematics, Volume 102, 1986, pp. 251-257.
with Paul Erdős, Robert Tijdeman: Some diophantine equations with many solutions , Compositio Mathematica, Volume 66, 1988, pp. 37–56.
with Kunrui Yu On the abc conjecture , Mathematische Annalen, Volume 291, 1991, pp. 225-230.