Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contents of Volume 2
- 1 The work of J. F. Adams
- 2 Twisted tensor products of DGA's and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration
- 3 Hochschild homology, cyclic homology and the cobar construction
- 4 Hermitian A∞ rings and their K-theory
- 5 A splitting result for the second homology group of the general linear group
- 6 Low dimensional spinor representations, Adams maps and geometric dimension
- 7 The characteristic classes for the exceptional Lie groups
- 8 How can you tell two spaces apart when they have the same n-type for all n?
- 9 A generalized Grothendieck spectral sequence
- 10 Localization of the homotopy set of the axes of pairings
- 11 Fibrewise reduced product spaces
- 12 Computing homotopy types using crossed n-cubes of groups
- 13 On orthogonal pairs in categories and localization
- 14 A note on extensions of nilpotent groups
- 15 On the Swan subgroup of metacyclic groups
- 16 Fields of spaces
- 17 Maps between p-completed classifying spaces, III
- 18 Retracts of classifying spaces
- 19 On the dimension theory of dominant summands
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contents of Volume 2
- 1 The work of J. F. Adams
- 2 Twisted tensor products of DGA's and the Adams-Hilton model for the total space of a fibration
- 3 Hochschild homology, cyclic homology and the cobar construction
- 4 Hermitian A∞ rings and their K-theory
- 5 A splitting result for the second homology group of the general linear group
- 6 Low dimensional spinor representations, Adams maps and geometric dimension
- 7 The characteristic classes for the exceptional Lie groups
- 8 How can you tell two spaces apart when they have the same n-type for all n?
- 9 A generalized Grothendieck spectral sequence
- 10 Localization of the homotopy set of the axes of pairings
- 11 Fibrewise reduced product spaces
- 12 Computing homotopy types using crossed n-cubes of groups
- 13 On orthogonal pairs in categories and localization
- 14 A note on extensions of nilpotent groups
- 15 On the Swan subgroup of metacyclic groups
- 16 Fields of spaces
- 17 Maps between p-completed classifying spaces, III
- 18 Retracts of classifying spaces
- 19 On the dimension theory of dominant summands
Summary
The international Symposium on algebraic topology which was held in Manchester in July 1990 was originally conceived as a tribute to Frank Adams by mathematicians in many countries who admired and had been influenced by his work and leadership. Preparations for the meeting, including invitations to the principal speakers, were already well advanced at the time of his tragic death in a car accident on 7 January 1989, at the age of 58 and still at the height of his powers.
Those members of the Symposium, and readers of these volumes, who had the good fortune to know Frank as a colleague, teacher and friend will need no introduction here to the qualities of his intellect and personality. Others are referred to loan James's article, published as Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, Vol. 36, 1990, pages 3–16, and to the Memorial Address and the Reminiscences written by Peter May and published in The Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 12, no. 1, 1990, pages 40–44 and 45–48.
We, the editors of these proceedings, were both research students of Frank's during his years at Manchester, As might be imagined, this was a remarkable and unforgettable experience. There was inspiration in plenty, and, on occasion, humble pie to be eaten as well. The latter became palatable as we learned to appreciate that the vigour of Frank's responses was never directed at us as individuals, but rather towards the defence of mathematics.
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- Adams Memorial Symposium on Algebraic Topology , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992