Category Archives: the Web

me and the World Wide Web

New web address

Posted on 17/03/2023 by Peter Cameron

Thanks to all of you who made suggestions about moving my webpages, since the University will take the old ones down at the end of the month. GitHub was the most popular suggestion, so I went with that. The new … Continue reading →

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A warning

Posted on 19/12/2022 by Peter Cameron

I have just learned that I am losing my personal webpages at St Andrews, http://www-groups.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~pjc/ I know people have found some of this material useful. I will try to make it available in some other form, though this may have … Continue reading →

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Books

Posted on 02/02/2019 by Peter Cameron

I realised yesterday that, although I had moved the web pages of books I had written to my St Andrews website when I came here, I had neither updated them nor put links to them. I have done the easier … Continue reading →

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Success stories

Posted on 24/05/2018 by Peter Cameron

The London Mathematical Society’s “Success stories” project has officially launched; the webpage is here. I thought the aim was to tell the world that mathematics is a great career by recounting the stories of people who have some interesting success … Continue reading →

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Carnival of Mathematics

Posted on 29/09/2017 by Peter Cameron

The Carnival of Mathematics, a monthly blogging round-up, will be hosted on the CoDiMa site in October. (It travels round various mathematics blogs but is coordinated by Katie at The Aperiodical.) My contribution to the carnival is a piece called … Continue reading →

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The ICA

Posted on 04/11/2016 by Peter Cameron

The Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications keeps a low profile. There is no on-line version of its Bulletin. When I was forced to leave my office in Queen Mary at two weeks notice, old issues of the Bulletin (along … Continue reading →

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Resources pages going down

Posted on 22/09/2016 by Peter Cameron

At Queen Mary, I used to maintain two pages with links to resources, one for permutation groups, the other for designs. (The latter is quite separate from the DesignTheory.org website.) These pages have not been maintained for a long time … Continue reading →

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An award

Posted on 08/09/2016 by Peter Cameron

There is, I believe, a great resource for mathematicians called MathOverflow. I have never made much use of it. I am not quite sure why, but I think it is because of the competitive aspect: give a good answer, earn … Continue reading →

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My QMUL page updated

Posted on 31/08/2016 by Peter Cameron

Since I moved to St Andrews in 2013, my QMUL web page stopped being a working page, and really needed to be re-jigged as a page of record. This I have now done. It now points to many things, not … Continue reading →

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New Year thoughts

Posted on 02/01/2016 by Peter Cameron

It was with some relief that I saw that this year WordPress have not sent a summary of the year just past. So I was able to look at the statistics and make my own judgement. Numbers of visitors and … Continue reading →

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