David Mumford

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.

David Mumford
David Mumford in 2010
Born (1937-06-11) 11 June 1937
Worth, West Sussex, England
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University
Known forAlgebraic geometry
Mumford surface
Deligne-Mumford stacks
Mumford–Shah functional
AwardsPutnam 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)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBrown University
Harvard University
Doctoral advisorOscar Zariski
Doctoral studentsAvner Ash
Henri Gillet
Tadao Oda
Emma Previato
Malka Schaps
Michael Stillman
Jonathan Wahl
Song-Chun Zhu
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