British mathematician
Ioan Mackenzie James FRS (born 23 May 1928) is a British mathematician working in the field of topology , particularly in homotopy theory .
Biography
James was born in Croydon , Surrey , England ,[2] and was educated at St Paul's School, London and Queen's College, Oxford . In 1953 he earned a D. Phil. from the University of Oxford 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 doctoral supervisor, Whitehead. In 1984 he became President of the London Mathematical Society .
He married Rosemary Stewart , a writer and researcher in business management and healthcare management, in 1961. She died in 2015, aged 90.[5]
Books
Ioan James , Topologies and Uniformities (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series), Springer, 1999.
Ioan James , Remarkable Mathematicians, From Euler to von Neumann , Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Ioan James , Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa , Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Ioan James , Asperger's Syndrome And High Achievement: Some Very Remarkable People , Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2005.
Ioan James, Michael Fitzgerald , The Mind of the Mathematician , JHU Press, 2007.
Ioan James , Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists , Peter Lang Oxford, 2009.
Ioan James , Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton , Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Ioan James , Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon , Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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