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Terry Wall is an English mathematician who has made important contributions to algebraic and differential topology.

Terry Wall attended Marlborough College.
Wall had already been awarded a fellowship at Trinity College in 1959 before the award of his doctorate and he held this fellowship until 1964.
In addition to his fellowship, Wall was appointed a College Lecturer at Cambridge when he returned from the United States in 1961.
In 1964 Wall moved from Cambridge to Oxford where he was appointed Reader in Mathematics and a fellow of St Catherine's College.
Wall's research is mostly in the area of geometric topology and related algebra.
In 1995 Wall published The geometry of topological stability written jointly with A A du Plessis.
Wall's work has led to him receiving many awards.
In 1990 Wall was elected a foreign member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences.
Wall retired in 1999 and was made Emeritus Professor at the University of Liverpool.
Retirement certainly did not mean that Wall was less in demand as a plenary speaker at international conferences.
Wall continues to publish important research articles, and an outstanding book Singular points of plane curves in 2004.

Born 14 December 1936, Bristol, England.

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Origin England, Topology

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