Peter Johnstone (mathematician)

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Peter Tennant Johnstone (born December 28, 1948) is Professor of the Foundations of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of St. John's College.[1] He invented or developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in topos theory. His thesis, completed at the University of Cambridge in 1974, was entitled "Some Aspects of Internal Category Theory in an Elementary Topos".[2]

Peter Johnstone is a choral singer, having sung for over thirty years with the Cambridge University Musical Society and since 2004 with the (London) Bach Choir. Following a severe bout of COVID-19 in 2020, he was invited by the Bach Choir's musical director David Hill to provide the text for a new choral work about the pandemic which the Choir commissioned from the composer Richard Blackford; the piece, `Vision of a Garden', was performed at the Bach Choir's first post-lockdown concert in October 2021 in the Royal Festival Hall, london, and again in July 2023 in King's College Chapel, Cambridge.[3]

He is a great-great-great nephew of the Reverend George Gilfillan who was eulogised in William McGonagall's first poem.[4]

Books

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— "[F]ar too hard to read, and not for the faint-hearted"[5]
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References

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  4. Hunt, Chris, William McGonagall: Collected Poems, Birlinn, 2006, px
  5. An anonymous referee, as quoted by Johnstone in his Sketches of an elephant, p. ix.

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