The College is saddened to learn of the death of Professor Ioan James FRS, Honorary Fellow, on 21 February 2025, aged 96.
Professor Ioan James matriculated in 1946 at Queen’s and read for a BA in Mathematics.
He was was Senior Research Fellow, Tutor and Lecturer in Pure Mathematics at St John’s (1959–69) and the Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford (1970–95). He was an Honorary Fellow of St John’s, New College, and The Queen’s College.
Professor James had a distinguished career as a research mathematician winning the Senior Whitehead Prize (1978) of the London Mathematical Society, of which he was also President (1984). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1968 and held visiting positions at many universities worldwide, as well as serving on national and international committees. The author of a number of books in mathematics, Professor James also contributed to books on the history of science.
The reading room in the New Library at Queen’s, which opened in 2017, is named after him.
