Person: Mumford, David Bryant

David Mumford is an English-born American mathematician who won a Fields Medal for his work on algebraic geometry.

After attending Exeter School, Mumford entered Harvard University.
It was at Harvard that Mumford first became interested in algebraic varieties.
After graduating from Harvard, Mumford was appointed to the staff there.
Mumford's greatest honour was being awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress in Vancouver in 1974.
Mumford has carried forward, after Zariski, the project of making algebraic and rigorous the work of the Italian school on algebraic surfaces.
In the 1980s however, the direction of Mumford's work changed dramatically.
Mumford has received many honours in addition to the Fields Medal.
Let us mention the book Indra's Pearls: The Vision of Felix Klein which he published with Caroline Series and David Wright in 2002.

Born 11 June 1937, Worth, Sussex, England.

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Prize Fields Medal, Origin England, Prize Shaw, Prize Wolf

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O’Connor, John J; Robertson, Edmund F: MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive