Synopses & Reviews
Contains a combination of selected papers given in honour of John Frank Adams which illustrate the profound influence that he had on algebraic topology.
Review
"...this exceptional three-volume history of Latin American Literature...surpasses its goal....Congatulations to contributors, editors, and publishers on what will become a classic in the field." F. Colecchia, Choice
Table of Contents
Progress report on the telescope conjecture; On K* stable homotopy theory; Detruncating Morava K-theory; p-adic interpolation of stable homotopy groups; Some remarks on v1-periodic homotopy groups; The unstable Novikov spectral sequence for Sp(n), and the power series sinh-1(x); On a certain localisation of the stable homotopy of the space XG; Co-operations in elliptic homology; Completion of G-spectra at ideals of the Burnside ring, I & II; Theorems of Poisson, Euler and Bernouilli on the Adams spectral sequence; Algebras over the Steenrod algebra and finite H-spaces; The boundedness conjecture for the action of the Steenrod algebra on polynomials; Representations of the homology of BV and the Steenrod algebra, I; Generic representation theory and Lannes' T-functor; Some chromatic phenomena in the homotopy of MSp; On a conjecture of Mahowald concerning bordism with singularities; Topological gravity and algebraic topology.