British mathematician
John David Philip Meldrum (18 July 1940 in Rabat, Morocco; died 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a British Mathematician. Meldrum was an algebraist and his research was mostly related to group theory.[1]
Biography
Meldrum was born in Rabat, Morocco.[1]
In 1964 he was appointed as a Supernumerary Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics at Emmanuel College.[1] Meldrum received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967 on the topic of "Central Series in Wreath Products". His supervisor was Derek Roy Taunt.[2]
In 1969 he became a lecturer for mathematics at the University of Edinburgh and in 1982 he was appointed there as a senior lecturer.[1]
He died on 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh after a battle with the Parkinson's disease.[1]
Books
As an author
As a translator
Meldrum translated the following book by Nicolas Bourbaki:
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