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OBITUARY JOHN FRANK ADAMS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 1997

I. M. JAMES  and
C. T. C. WALL
I. M. JAMES
Affiliation:
Mathematical Institute, 24–29 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LB
C. T. C. WALL
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX

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Frank Adams was born in Woolwich on 5 November 1930. His home was in New Eltham, about ten miles east of the centre of London. Both his parents were graduates of King's College, London, which was where they had met. They had one other child — Frank's younger brother Michael — who rose to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal in the Royal Air Force.

In his creative gifts and practical sense, Frank took after his father, a civil engineer, who worked for the government on road building in peace-time and airfield construction in war-time. In his exceptional capacity for hard work, Frank took after his mother, who was a biologist active in the educational field.

Type
Obituary
Information
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , July 1997 , pp. 489 - 501
Copyright
© The London Mathematical Society 1997