References for Frank Adams

1. Biography by Ioan M James, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).

Books:

2. J P May and C B Thomas (eds), The selected works of J Frank Adams (2 Vols) (Cambridge, 1992).

Articles:

3. I M James, John Frank Adams, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society of London 36 (1990), 3-16.
4. I M James and C T C Wall, Obituary : John Frank Adams, Bull. London Math. Soc. 29 (4) (1997), 489-501.
5. J P May, Memorial address for J Frank Adams, The Mathematical Intelligencer 12 (1) (1990), 40-44.
6. J P May, The work of J F Adams, in Adams Memorial Symposium on Algebraic Topology 1, Manchester 1990 (Cambridge, 1992), 1-27.
7. J P May, Reminiscences on the life and mathematics of J Frank Adams, The Mathematical Intelligencer 12 (1) (1990), 45-48.

February 2005