Interviews conducted, 1958, by Willa K. Baum for the Regional Cultural History Project, University of California Library, Berkeley. Portrait photographs of Mr. Adams and several of his associates, and related printed items inserted. Notes on his family, particularly his father, Edward Francis Adams, Fruit Exchange organizer and agricultural writer; education, including Stanford University experiences and work with Edward A. Ross; association with Elwood Mead; investigations for reclamation, irrigation, soil conservation and flood control projects in California and elsewhere (including Palestine); water rights controversies; the Commonwealth Club. Copies of various pertienent letters and papers and a list of Adams' publications, appended.

J. Frank Adams was one of the world's leading topologists. He solved a number of celebrated problems in algebraic topology, a subject in which he initiated many of the most active areas of research. He wrote a large number of papers during the period 1955-1988, and they are characterised by elegant writing and depth of thought. Few of them have been superseded by later work. This selection, in two volumes, brings together all his major research contributions. They are organised by subject matter rather than in strict chronological order. The first contains papers on: the cobar construction, the Adams spectral sequence, higher-order cohomology operations, and the Hopf invariant one problem; applications of K-theory; generalised homology and cohomology theories. The second volume is mainly concerned with Adams' contributions to: characteristic classes and calculations in K-theory; modules over the Steenrod algebra and their Ext groups; finite H-spaces and compact Lie groups; maps between classifying spaces of compact groups. Every serious student or practitioner of algebraic topology will want to own a copy of these two volumes both as a historical record and as a source of continued reference.

The selected works of one the greatest names in algebraic topology.

The theory of infinite loop spaces has been the center of much recent activity in algebraic topology. Frank Adams surveys this extensive work for researchers and students. Among the major topics covered are generalized cohomology theories and spectra; infinite-loop space machines in the sense of Boadman-Vogt, May, and Segal; localization and group completion; the transfer; the Adams conjecture and several proofs of it; and the recent theories of Adams and Priddy and of Madsen, Snaith, and Tornehave.