José Ádem
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José Ádem Chaín was a Mexican
Mexican people
Mexican people refers to all persons from Mexico, a multiethnic country in North America, and/or who identify with the Mexican cultural and/or national identity....

 mathematician who worked in
algebraic topology
Algebraic topology
Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics which uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariants that classify topological spaces up to homeomorphism, though usually most classify up to homotopy equivalence.Although algebraic topology...

, and proved the Ádem relations between Steenrod squares.

He did postgraduate work at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....

 where his advisor was Norman Steenrod
Norman Steenrod
Norman Earl Steenrod was a preeminent mathematician most widely known for his contributions to the field of algebraic topology.-Life:...

.

He was elected to El Colegio Nacional on 4 April 1960.

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