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British mathematician (1930–1989) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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Born | (1930-11-05)5 November 1930 Woolwich, London, United Kingdom |
Died | 7 January 1989(1989-01-07) (aged 58) Brampton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
Known for | Adams spectral sequence Adams operations Adams conjecture |
Awards | Berwick Prize (1963) Senior Whitehead Prize (1974) Sylvester Medal (1982) |
Scientific career | |
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] |
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