We are sorry to hear of the passing of Peter Neumann 1940- 2020. Peter was born in Oxford and raised in Hull where he attended Hymers. 

He was a British mathematician. He was a son of the German-born mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann and, after gaining a BA degree from The Queen's College, Oxford in 1963, obtained his DPhil degree from Oxford University in 1966.

Neumann was a Tutorial Fellow at the Queen's College, Oxford, and a lecturer at Oxford University. After retiring in 2008, he became an Emeritus Fellow at the Queen's College. His work has been in the field of group theory. He is also known for solving Alhazen's problem in 1997.Neumann's work in the history of mathematics includes his 2011 edited edition of the work of the short-lived French mathematician Évariste Galois (1811–1832).Neumann was a long-standing supporter of the British Society for the History of Mathematics, whose Neumann Prize is named in his honour.

In 1987, Neumann won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America for his review of Harold Edwards' book Galois Theory.In 2003, the London Mathematical Society awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize He was the first Chairman of the United Kingdom Mathematics Trust, from October 1996 to April 2004, succeeded by Bernard Silverman. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 New Year Honours.