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Peter Tennant Johnstone (born 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 some 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]He is a great-great nephew of the Reverend George Gilfillan who was apostrophised in William McGonagall's first poem.[3] Books- {{citation|first=Peter|last=Johnstone|year=1977|title=Topos Theory|publisher=Academic Press|isbn=978-0-12-387850-2|zbl=0368.18001}}.
— "[F]ar too hard to read, and not for the faint-hearted"[4] - {{citation|first=Peter|last=Johnstone|year=1982|title=Stone Spaces|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-33779-3|zbl=0499.54001}}.
- {{citation|first=Peter|last=Johnstone|year=1987|title=Notes on Logic and Set Theory|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-33692-5}}.
- {{citation|first=Peter|last=Johnstone|year=2002|title=Sketches of an Elephant: A Topos Theory Compendium. I, II|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-852496-0|zbl=1071.18002}} (v.3 in preparation)
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/reporter/2009-10/special/03/26.html|title=Fellows of St. John's College 2009|publisher=Cambridge University Reporter|date=2009-10-02}} 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=24514|title=The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Peter Johnstone|publisher=}} 3. ^Hunt, Chris, William McGonagall: Collected Poems, Birlinn, 2006, px 4. ^An anonymous referee, as quoted by Johnstone in his Sketches of an elephant, p. ix.
External links- [https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/people/ptj1000/ Johnstone's web page]
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