John David Philip Meldrum (18 July 1940 inRabat, Morocco; died 9 August 2018 inEdinburgh, Scotland) was a British mathematician. Meldrum was analgebraist and his research was mostly related togroup theory.^[1]

Meldrum was born in Rabat, Morocco.^[1]

In 1964 he was appointed as a supernumerary fellow and college lecturer in mathematics atEmmanuel College.^[1] Meldrum received his PhD from theUniversity of Cambridge in 1967 on the topic of "Central Series in Wreath Products". His supervisor wasDerek Roy Taunt.^[2]

In 1969 he became a lecturer for mathematics at theUniversity of Edinburgh and in 1982 he was appointed there as a senior lecturer.^[1]

He died on 9 August 2018 in Edinburgh after a battle with theParkinson's disease.^[1]

• John D. P. Meldrum (1985).Near-rings and Their Links with Groups. Longman Higher Education.ISBN 978-0273087014.^[3]
• John D. P. Meldrum (1995).Wreath Products of Groups and Semigroups.Chapman and Hall/CRC.ISBN 9780582026933.^[4]

Meldrum translated the following book byNicolas Bourbaki:

• Nicolas Bourbaki (1994).Elements of the History of Mathematics. Translated by John D. P. Meldrum.Springer Verlag.ISBN 978-0387193762.

• 1940 births
• 2018 deaths
• Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• Alumni of the University of Cambridge
• Academics of the University of Cambridge
• Academics of the University of Edinburgh
• British mathematicians
• People from Rabat
• Group theorists

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