Emeritus Professor

Cheryl Praeger

AC FAA

Cheryl Praeger
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Professor Praeger has established an enviable reputation for her highly original research in the theory of permutation groups, both finite and infinite, in algorithmic group theory, in graph theory, and in other combinatorial theories. She is the author or co-author of rather more than 100 papers and several monographs.

Expertise type

  • Algebraic Combinatorics
  • Group Theory
  • Mathematics
  • Pure Mathematics

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Professor Cheryl Praeger, mathematician

Cheryl Praeger was born in Toowoomba, Queensland in 1948. In 1970 she received a BSc Hons from the University of Queensland, having concentrated on mathematics. Praeger was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to Oxford University where she studied group theory under Dr Peter Neumann, receiving a MSc in 1972 and a DPhil in 1974. She returned to Australia in 1973 to take up a position as a research fellow in mathematics at the Australian National University.
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