John Frank Adams (Londres, — Brampton, ) foi um matemático inglês.
Um dos gurus da topologia algébrica, envolveu-se principalmente com a homotopia. Foi Professor Lowndeano de Astronomia e Geometria.
Obras On the non existence of elements of Hopf invariant one, Annals of Mathematics Bd.72, 1960, S.20 Vector fields on spheres, Annals of Mathematics Bd.75, 1962, S.603-632 Stable homotopy theory, 1964, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics Lectures on Lie groups, 1969 Algebraic topology: a student's guide, 1972 (mit Reprints) Stable homotopy theory and generalized homology, 1974 Localisation and completion, 1975 Infinite loop spaces, 1978 Lectures on exceptional Lie groups, 1996 May, Thomas (Ed.): Selected works of J.Frank Adams, 2 Bde., Cambridge 1992
Bibliografia I. M. James: Biographical memoirs of the fellows of the Royal Society, 1990 (sowie Artikel in Dictionary of National Biography 2004 und Bulletin London Math. Society 1997 mit C.T.C.Wall) May: Reminiscences of the Life and Mathematics of John Frank Adams, Mathematical Intelligencer 1990 May: The work of Frank Adams, London Math. Society Lecture Notes Bd.175, 1992, 1
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