Brown

Peter Brown with Professor Bernhard Neumann after receiving his BH Neumann Award at The Hermitage restaurant, Canberra, November 1994. Peter joined the AMC Management Committee as Treasurer in 1978, and was one of the earliest and strongest participants in AMC management until 1992. He was a Senior Lecturer in Mathematics at the Canberra College of Advanced Education, later University of Canberra, over a period of more than 30 years.

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Dr Brown has been the Treasurer of the Australian Mathematics Foundation since late 1977. In that time he has developed an effective financial recording system which was able to cope with the extraordinary growth of the Australian Mathematics Competition. As Treasurer he has worked diligently on a voluntary basis until the mid 1980s. He came at a time when there was a major gap in our organisation regarding financial control and, as such has given great service to the AMC.