Peter Johnstone (mathematician)
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Peter Tennant Johnstone is Professor of the Foundations of Mathematics at St. John's College, Cambridge.[1] He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in topos theory.
Books by Peter Johnstone
- — "[F]ar too hard to read, and not for the faint-hearted"[2]
- Johnstone, Peter (1982), Stone Spaces, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521337793 . – Zbl. 0499.54001
- Johnstone, Peter (1987), Notes on Logic and Set Theory, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521336925 .
- Johnstone, Peter (2002–), Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory Compendium. I, II, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0198524960 (v.1), ISBN 0-19-851598-7 (v.2) . – Zbl. 1071.18002 (v.3 in preparation)
- ^ "Fellows of St. John's College 2009". Cambridge University Reporter. 2009-10-02. http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/special/03/26.html.
- ^ An anonymous referee, as quoted by Johnstone in his Sketches of an elephant, p. ix.
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