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'''Ioan Mackenzie James''' (born 23 May 1928 [[Croydon]], [[Surrey]], [[England]]<ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1928 2a 638 CROYDON - Ioan M. James, mmn - Surridge</ref>) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[mathematician]] working in the field of [[topology]] particularly in [[homotopy theory]]. |
'''Ioan Mackenzie James''' (born 23 May 1928 [[Croydon]], [[Surrey]], [[England]]<ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1928 2a 638 CROYDON - Ioan M. James, mmn - Surridge</ref>) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[mathematician]] working in the field of [[topology]] particularly in [[homotopy theory]]. |
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He was educated at [[St Paul's School, London]] and [[Queen's College, Oxford]]. He earned a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D]] from the [[University of Oxford]] in 1953 for his thesis entitled ''Some problems in algebraic topology'', written under the direction of [[J. H. C. Whitehead]]. |
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He held the [[Savilian chair of geometry|Savilian Chair of Geometry]] at the University of Oxford from 1970 to |
In 1957 he was appointed Reader in Pure Mathematics, a post which he held until 1969. From 1959 until 1969 he was a Senior Research Fellow at St John's College. He held the [[Savilian chair of geometry|Savilian Chair of Geometry]] at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He is now a [[professor emeritus]]. |
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In 1978 the [[London Mathematical Society]] awarded him the [[Senior Whitehead Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |
He was elected a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1968. <ref> {{cite web |url=http://royalsociety.org/about-us/fellowship/fellows/|title= Fellows |publisher= Royal Society|accessdate= 7 November 2010}} </ref> In 1978 the [[London Mathematical Society]] awarded him the [[Senior Whitehead Prize]]<ref>{{cite web |
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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 was educated at St Paul's School, London and Queen's College, Oxford. He earned a Ph.D from the University of Oxford in 1953 for his thesis entitled Some problems in algebraic topology, written under the direction of J. H. C. Whitehead.
In 1957 he was appointed Reader in Pure Mathematics, a post which he held until 1969. From 1959 until 1969 he was a Senior Research Fellow at St John's College. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He is now a professor emeritus.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968. [3] In 1978 the London Mathematical Society awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize[4], which was established in honour of his PhD supervisor, Whitehead.
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
- ^ "Fellows". Royal Society. Retrieved 7 November 2010.
- ^ London Mathematical Society. "List of Prizewinners". Retrieved 2007-07-08.
Books
- Ioan James, Remarkable Mathematicians, From Euler to von Neumann, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Ioan James, Remarkable Physicists, Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Ioan James, Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists, Peter Lang Oxford, 2009.
External links
- Ioan James at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Ioan James", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews
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