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David Mumford
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British/American mathematician
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-06-11 ) 11 June 1937 (age 88) , Worth, West Sussex , England
- Alma mater
- Harvard University
- Known for
- Algebraic geometry , Mumford surface , Deligne-Mumford stacks , Mumford–Shah functional
- Awards
- Putnam Fellow (1955, 1956), Sloan Fellowship (1962), Fields Medal (1974), MacArthur Fellowship (1987), Shaw Prize (2006), Steele Prize (2007), Wolf Prize (2008), Longuet-Higgins Prize (2005, 2009), National Medal of Science (2010), BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012)
- Honours
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology ( Honoris Causa )
- Fields
- Mathematics
- Institutions
- Brown University , Harvard University
- Thesis
- Existence of the moduli scheme for curves of any genus (1961)
- Doctoral advisor
- Oscar Zariski
- Doctoral students
- Avner Ash , Henri Gillet , Ching-Li Chai , Tadao Oda , Emma Previato , Malka Schaps , Michael Stillman , Jonathan Wahl , Song-Chun Zhu
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Worth
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Phillips Exeter Academy
- Employer
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Academic degree
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Doctoral advisor
- Oscar Zariski
- Student of
- Oscar Zariski
- Field of work
- algebraic geometry
- Official website
- www.dam.brown.edu/people/mumford
- Image
- David Mumford.jpg
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- member of
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- date of birth
- 1937-06-11
- Commons category
- David Mumford
- Erdős number
- 2
- name in native language
- David Bryant Mumford
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic geometry and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He won the Fields Medal and was a MacArthur Fellow. In 2010 he was awarded the National Medal of Science. He is currently a University Professor Emeritus in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University.
Life
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