Ioan James
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Ioan Mackenzie James FRS (23 May 1928 – 21 February 2025) was a British mathematician working in the field of topology, particularly in homotopy theory.
Life and career
James was born in Croydon, Surrey, England,<ref>GRO Register of Births: SEP 1928 2a 638 CROYDON - Ioan M. James, mmn - Surridge</ref> 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, Oxford. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1970 to 1995. He was a professor emeritus, and later an honorary fellow of St John's.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 1978 the London Mathematical Society awarded him the Senior Whitehead Prize,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which was established in honour of his doctoral supervisor, Whitehead. In 1984 he became President of the London Mathematical Society.
James married Rosemary Stewart, a writer and researcher in business management and healthcare management, in 1961. She died in 2015, aged 90.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> James died on 21 February 2025, aged 96.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Books
- Template:Aut, Topologies and Uniformities (Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series), Springer, 1999.
- Template:Aut, Remarkable Mathematicians, From Euler to von Neumann, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- Template:Aut, Remarkable Physicists: From Galileo to Yukawa, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Template:Aut, Asperger's Syndrome And High Achievement: Some Very Remarkable People, Jessica Kingsley Pub, 2005.
- Template:Aut, The Mind of the Mathematician, JHU Press, 2007.
- Template:Aut, Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists, Peter Lang Oxford, 2009.
- Template:Aut, Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Template:Aut, Remarkable Engineers: From Riquet to Shannon, Cambridge University Press, 2010.