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DEATHS
Click on a name in the list below. IAIN ADAMSON Published online 14 September 2010 Dr Iain T. Adamson, who was elected a member of the London Mathematical Society on 19 December 1957, died on 9 June 2010, aged 81. Arthur Sands writes: Iain graduated from St Andrews University in 1950 and then went to Princeton University where he obtained his doctorate with Emil Artin as supervisor. In 1953 he joined the Mathematics Department at Queen's University, Belfast. After seven years he returned to his home town of Dundee to take up a lectureship at Queen's College which was soon to become the University of Dundee. He remained there as lecturer and senior lecturer until his retirement, apart from visits to the University of Western Australia where he met Robin who was to become his wife. Iain wrote three textbooks on algebra at honours/postgraduate level as well as translated books by Artin and by Hilbert. His main interests were in teaching but he also played a prominent role on Senate and on Court. He taught linear algebra successfully using the Keller Plan and was disappointed when the department did not take this further. When staff were needed to teach Computing he switched mainly to this, but did so properly by taking an MSc by thesis at St Andrews. Then he wrote a textbook in this area. He also ran the departmental library, which contained more than 10,000 books as well as periodicals. During 1983–84 he was President of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. When calls for early retirement were made he accepted this, but returned to teach part-time as well as continued to run the library. Undoubtedly he gave much more than the 35% which was required in his contract. He also trained as an auxiliary Church of Scotland minister. Upon ordination he helped a full-time minister who had charge of four churches in the Carse of Gowrie, taking two services each Sunday. After final retirement he returned with Robin to Western Australia. He is survived by her and by their daughter Margaret. GRAHAM EVEREST Published online 14 September 2010 Professor Graham R. Everest, who was elected a member of the London Mathematical Society on 18 November 1983, died on 30 July 2010, aged 52. Thomas Ward writes: Graham’s talent for mathematics took him to Bedford College and doctoral study under the supervision of Colin Bushnell at King’s College London. He joined the University of East Anglia as a lecturer in 1983, and spent his whole career there. His research appeared in the form of some 70 research papers and three monographs, and spanned diverse areas of number theory. Three themes informed his research. First, the impact of twentieth-century developments in Diophantine analysis and transcendence theory on counting problems and questions in algebraic number theory. Second, the fascinating arithmetic properties of recurrence sequences, including classical questions in the spirit of Mersenne, Lehmer, Zsigmondy and so on, as well as more modern developments on bilinear sequences and elliptic divisibility sequences. Third, Graham had an abiding interest in all aspects of the interaction between number theory and dynamical systems. As a researcher Graham brought great joy and creativity to his work, and the generosity of his approach to mathematics will be familiar to his thirty co-authors. Graham was a dedicated teacher and supervisor, and many generations of students will remember the energy and enthusiasm of his lectures. His belief in the transforming power of higher education was recognized in the form of a UEA Excellence in Teaching award in 2005. Graham is survived by his children James, Philip and Rebekah, and his wife Sue. A memorial fund has been started in the School of Mathematics, the details of which are on the School's website at www.uea.ac.uk/mth/frontpage/grahameverest
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