John Lennox
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| Born | John Carson Lennox 7 November 1943 Northern Ireland, United Kingdom |
| Residence | Oxford, England, United Kingdom |
| Citizenship | British |
| Nationality | Northern Irish |
| Fields | Mathematics, Group Theory |
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| Doctoral advisor | James Roseblade |
| Doctoral students | Howard Smith |
John Carson Lennox (born 7 November 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician specialising in group theory, philosopher of science, Christian apologist, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow in Mathematics and Philosophy of Science at Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is also Pastoral Advisor of Green Templeton College and Fellow of Wycliffe Hall.
John Lennox was born in 1943 in Northern Ireland and brought up in Armagh where his father ran a store. He attended The Royal School, Armagh, and went on to become Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where in 1962 he also attended the last lectures of C. S. Lewis on the poet John Donne. Lennox obtained an M.A. and PhD. degree at the University of Cambridge on the dissertation Centrality and Permutability in Soluble Groups (1970). He was awarded a D.Sc. degree in mathematics by the University of Cardiff for his research. Lennox furthermore holds a D.Phil. degree from the University of Oxford and an M.A. degree in bioethics at the University of Surrey.
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