Ioan James
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| Born | May 23, 1928 Croydon, Surrey, England |
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| Alma mater | St Paul's, The Queen's, Oxford[1] |
Ioan Mackenzie James (born 23 May 1928 Croydon, Surrey, England[2]) is a British mathematician working in the field of topology particularly in homotopy theory. He is a fellow of the Royal Society.
He received his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in 1953. His thesis, titled Some problems in algebraic topology, was written under the direction of J. H. C. Whitehead.
He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He is now a professor emeritus.
In 1978 the London Mathematical Society awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize[3], which was established in honour of his PhD supervisor, Whitehead.
[edit] References
- ^ ‘JAMES, Prof. Ioan Mackenzie’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 27 March 2008
- ^ GRO Register of Births: SEP 1928 2a 638 CROYDON - Ioan M. James, mmn - Surridge
- ^ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". http://www.lms.ac.uk/activities/prizes_com/pastwinners.html#swhitehead. Retrieved on 2007-07-08.
[edit] External links
- Ioan James at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ioan James", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
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