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David Mumford | |
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 David Mumford in 2010 | |
| Born | 11 June 1937 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Known for | Algebraic geometry Mumford surface Deligne-Mumford stacks Mumford–Shah functional[1] |
| 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) |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University Harvard University |
| Doctoral advisor | Oscar Zariski |
| Doctoral students | Avner Ash Henri Gillet Tadao Oda Emma Previato Malka Schaps Michael Stillman Jonathan Wahl Song-Chun Zhu |
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.
- ^ Mumford, David; Shah, Jayant (1989). "Optimal Approximations by Piecewise Smooth Functions and Associated Variational Problems" (PDF). Comm. Pure Appl. Math. XLII (5): 577–685. doi:10.1002/cpa.3160420503.
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