John Frank Adams (Londres, 5 de novembro de 1930 — Brampton, 7 de janeiro de 1989) foi um matemático inglês.
Um dos gurus da topologia algébrica, envolveu-se principalmente com a homotopia. Foi Professor Lowndeano de Astronomia e Geometria.
On the non existence of elements of Hopf invariant one, Annals of Mathematics Bd.72, 1960, S.20
Vector fields on spheres, Annals of Mathematics Bd.75, 1962, S.603-632
Stable homotopy theory, 1964, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics
Algebraic topology: a student's guide, 1972 (mit Reprints)
Stable homotopy theory and generalized homology, 1974
Localisation and completion, 1975
Lectures on exceptional Lie groups, 1996
May, Thomas (Ed.): Selected works of J.Frank Adams, 2 Bde., Cambridge 1992
I. M. James: Biographical memoirs of the fellows of the Royal Society, 1990 (sowie Artikel in Dictionary of National Biography 2004 und Bulletin London Math. Society 1997 mit C.T.C.Wall)
May: Reminiscences of the Life and Mathematics of John Frank Adams, Mathematical Intelligencer 1990
May: The work of Frank Adams, London Math. Society Lecture Notes Bd.175, 1992, 1
Literatura de e sobre Frank Adams (em alemão) no catálogo da Biblioteca Nacional da Alemanha
O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., «Frank Adams», MacTutor History of Mathematics archive (em inglês), Universidade de St. Andrews
Frank Adams (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
«Adams "On the structure and applications of the Steenrod Algebra", Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici, Vol. 32, 1957/8»