Biography:José Ádem
José Adem | |
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| Born | Tuxpan, Veracruz, Mexico |
| Nationality |  Mexico |
| Alma mater | National University of Mexico (B.S., 1949) Princeton University (Ph.D., 1952) |
| Known for | Adem relations |
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| Fields | Algebraic Topology |
| Doctoral advisor | Norman Steenrod |
José Adem (born in Tuxpan, Veracruz, October 27, 1921; died February 14, 1991) was a Mexican mathematician who worked in algebraic topology, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares.
Life and education
Adem showed an interest in mathematics from an early age, and moved to Mexico City in 1941 to pursue a degree in engineering and mathematics. He obtained his B.S. in mathematics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1949.[1] During this time met Solomon Lefschetz, a famous algebraic topologist who was spending prolonged periods of time in Mexico. Lefschetz recognized Ádem's mathematical talent, and sent him as a doctoral student to Princeton University where he graduated in 1952.[2] His dissertation, Iterations of the squaring operations in algebraic topology, was written under the supervision of Norman Steenrod and introduced what are now called the Ádem relations.[3]
His brother Julián Adem was also a distinguished Mexican mathematician, who obtained a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Brown University in 1953.[4] Julián's son is topologist Alejandro Adem.[5]
Career
Ádem became a researcher at the Mathematics Institute of UNAM (1954–1961), and then head of the Mathematics Department at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (1961–1973).[6] He was elected to El Colegio Nacional on 4 April 1960.[1]
In 1951 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[7] He started in 1956 the second series of the Boletín de la Sociedad Matemática Mexicana.[2]
Publications
- Ádem, José (1952). "The iteration of the Steenrod squares in algebraic topology". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 38: 720–726. doi:10.1073/pnas.38.8.720. PMID 16589167.
- Ádem, José (1953). "Relations on iterated reduced powers". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 39: 636–638. doi:10.1073/pnas.39.7.636.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Biography of José Ádem". https://web.archive.org/web/20070105165733/http://www.colegionacional.org.mx/AdemJo0.htm.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Alejandro Ádem Díaz de León. "Biography of José Ádem" (in Spanish). http://www.matmor.unam.mx/~muciray/smm/60/adem.html.
- ↑ José Ádem at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Julián Adem at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "Interview with a Mathematician: Alejandro Adem". https://anthonybonato.com/2017/02/15/interview-with-a-mathematician-alejandro-adem/. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ↑ "Adem Chahín, José (1921-1991)". https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/adem-chahin-jose-1921-1991. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ↑ "Guggenheim Fellowship for José Ádem". https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jose-adem/.
External links
- Gitler, Samuel, ed (1982). Symposium on Algebraic Topology in honor of José Adem. Papers from the Symposium held in Oaxtepec, August 10–17, 1981. Contemporary Mathematics. 12. Providence, R.I.: American Mathematical Society. ISBN 0-8218-5010-5.
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