Peter Cameron has been interviewed for the Maths Careers website(link is external).
Acting, thinking creatively and travelling around the world might sound like the work of a Hollywood superstar, but guess again. Peter Cameron has been a professor of mathematics at Queen Mary, University of London for nearly 25 years, and his work researching and teaching mathematics lets him do all this and more. Jacob Aron, a writer for the Maths Careers website, talked to him about what it means to be a professional mathematician.