ABSTRACT
Peter J. Hilton, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at the State University of New York at Binghamton, has held, in addition to lecturerships at Cambridge and Manchester, professorships at Cornell and the University of Washington, the Mason Professorship of Pure Mathematics at Bir mingham and the Louis D. Beaumont University Professorship at Case Western Reserve. He is among the most peripatetic of modern mathematicians, lecturing around the world on mathematics and mathematical education. In the past few years he has lectured in South Africa, Brazil, Australia, and throughout Southeast Asia, as well as in a number of countries in Europe and North America.
