David Mumford

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David Mumford is an American mathematician renowned for his influential work in algebraic geometry and for receiving the Fields Medal in 1974.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
awardReceived Abel Prize (shared as part of group recognition for algebraic geometry contributions) NERFINISHED
Balzan Prize NERFINISHED
Cole Prize in Algebra NERFINISHED
Fields Medal NERFINISHED
MacArthur Fellowship NERFINISHED
National Medal of Science
Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences NERFINISHED
Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition NERFINISHED
Wolf Prize in Mathematics NERFINISHED
birthDate 1937-06-11
birthPlace Worth, Sussex, England NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
doctoralAdvisor Oscar Zariski NERFINISHED
educatedAt Harvard University
employer Brown University NERFINISHED
Harvard University
familyName Mumford NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork algebraic geometry
computer vision
mathematical neuroscience
pattern theory
statistics
gender male
givenName David NERFINISHED
hasWrittenWork Abelian Varieties NERFINISHED
Algebraic Geometry I: Complex Projective Varieties NERFINISHED
Curves and Their Jacobians NERFINISHED
Geometric Invariant Theory NERFINISHED
Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals NERFINISHED
The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes NERFINISHED
knownFor applications of mathematics to vision and pattern recognition
contributions to moduli theory of curves
development of geometric invariant theory
work in algebraic geometry
languageSpoken English
memberOf American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Mathematical Society NERFINISHED
National Academy of Sciences
Royal Society
name David Bryant Mumford NERFINISHED
notableAward Fields Medal NERFINISHED
occupation university professor
positionHeld Professor of Applied Mathematics at Brown University
Professor of Mathematics at Harvard University

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