José Ádem
José Ádem Chain (born October 27, 1921 in Tuxpan , Veracruz , † February 14, 1991 in Mexico City ) was a Mexican mathematician who dealt with algebraic topology .
Life
Adem studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he graduated in 1949, and received his PhD from Princeton University in 1952 with Norman Steenrod ( Iterations of the Squaring Operations in Algebraic Topology ). He came to Princeton University at the invitation of Solomon Lefschetz , who had given lectures in Mexico. In his dissertation he introduced the Adem relations into the Steenrod algebra of algebraic topology. From 1954 he was back in Mexico at the UNAM Mathematical Institute. From 1961 he was at the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (Cinvestav) of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN). In 1967 he received the Mexican National Prize for Art and Science. In 1960 he was elected to the Mexican Colegio Nacional .
He was a Sloan and Guggenheim fellow .
Since 1956 he was editor of the Boletin ( Bulletin ) of the Mexican Mathematical Society. From 1969 to 1975 he was the coordinator of the Organization of American States' multinational mathematics program .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ádem, José |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ádem Chain, José (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Mexican mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 27, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tuxpan |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1991 |
| Place of death | Mexico city |