Background
He is a son of the mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann and, after gaining a Bachelor of Arts from The Queen"s College, Oxford in 1963, obtained his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1966.
mathematician historian of mathematics
He is a son of the mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann and, after gaining a Bachelor of Arts from The Queen"s College, Oxford in 1963, obtained his D.Phil from Oxford University in 1966.
The Queen"s College.
He was a Tutorial Fellow at the Queen"s College, Oxford and a lecturer at Oxford University. After retiring in 2008, he became an Emeritus Fellow at the Queen"s College. His work has been in the field of group theory.
He is also known for solving Alhazen"s problem in 1997.
In 2003, the London Mathematical Society awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize. He was the first Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, from October 1996 to April 2004, succeeded by Bernard Silverman.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 New Year Honours.