Frank Adams
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| Awards | Berwick Prize (1963) Senior Whitehead Prize (1974) Sylvester Medal (1982) |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | On Spectral Sequences and Self-Obstruction Invariants (1956) |
| Doctoral advisor | Shaun Wylie |
| Doctoral students | Béla Bollobás Peter Johnstone Andrew Ranicki C. T. C. Wall Lam Siu-por[1] |
John Frank Adams FRS[2] (5 November 1930 – 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.[3][4][5]
Life
He was born in
His interests included mountaineering—he would demonstrate how to climb right round a table at parties (a Whitney traverse)—and the game of Go.
He died in a car crash in Brampton. There is a memorial plaque for him in the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Work
In the 1950s,
Adams was also a pioneer in the application of
In 1974 Adams became the first recipient of the Senior Whitehead Prize, awarded by the London Mathematical Society.[6] He was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1957–58.[7]
Adams had many talented students, and was highly influential in the development of
Recognition
The main mathematics research seminar room in the Alan Turing Building at the University of Manchester is named in his honour.
See also
References
- ^ Frank Adams at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- JSTOR 770077.
- ISBN 9780511526305.
- .
- ^ O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Frank Adams", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
- ^ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". Archived from the original on 15 April 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2007.
- ^ Institute for Advanced Study: A Community of Scholars
Publications
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