John D. P. Meldrum

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 PhD 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

• John D. P. Meldrum (1985). Near-rings and Their Links with Groups. Longman Higher Education. ISBN 978-0273087014.^[3]
• John D. P. Meldrum (1995). Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups. Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN 9780582026933.^[4]

As a translator

Meldrum translated the following book by Nicolas Bourbaki:

• Nicolas Bourbaki (1994). Elements of the History of Mathematics. Translated by John D. P. Meldrum. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0387193762.