Frank Adams | |
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Born | Woolwich, London, United Kingdom | 5 November 1930
Died | 7 January 1989 Brampton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom | (aged 58)
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] |
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]