Peter Johnstone (mathematician)

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Peter T. Johnstone (* 1948 ) is a British mathematician.

Peter Johnstone, Cambridge 1978

Johnstone received his doctorate from Frank Adams at Cambridge University in 1974 ( Some aspects of internal category theory in an elementary topos ). He is Professor of Fundamentals of Mathematics at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St. John's College.

He deals with topos theory and with applications of category theory in computer science.

In 1979 he was the first recipient of the Whitehead Prize with Peter Cameron .

Fonts

  • Topos Theory, Academic Press 1977
  • Sketches of an elephant: a Topos theory compendium, 2 volumes, Oxford University Press 2002
  • Notes on logic and set theory, Cambridge University Press 1987
  • Stone spaces, Cambridge University Press 1982
  • Editor Indexed categories and their applications ; Lecture Notes in Mathematics 661, Springer Verlag 1978

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Johnstone, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnstone, Peter T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1948