“by far the most important categorical notion for algebraic geometry is that of fibre product.”
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David Mumford
David Bryant Mumford 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.
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Born 11 June 1937 · Q334021
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2026· 2 entries
U.S. News & World Report: David Mumford
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2024· 1 entry
Was "a foundational approach for partitioning an image into meaningful regions while preserving edges
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2012).
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Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society
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2010· 1 entry
Was awarded the National Medal of Science
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009).
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Won National Medal of Science (2009).
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2008· 3 entries
Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (2008).
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Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2008).
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Was awarded the Wolf Prize; on receiving the prize in Jerusalem from Shimon Peres, Mumford announced that he was donating half of the prize money to Birzeit University in the Palestinian territories and half to Gisha,
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition (2007).
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Was awarded the Steele Prize for Mathematical Exposition by the American Mathematical Society
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2006· 2 entries
Awarded Shaw Prize (2006).
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Awarded The Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences (2006).
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship (2003).
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2002· 1 entry
Mumford and Tai Sing Lee proposed a model for the visual cortex, influenced by work on pattern theory by Ulf Grenander
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1993· 1 entry
On computation and algebraic geometry, in which Gröbner basis techniques are fundamental
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1992· 1 entry
Addressed the amodal completion problem with concepts from elastica theory
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1989· 1 entry
Mumford and Jayant Shah showed that a numerical method could tackle image segmentation, using what became known as the Mumford–Shah functional
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1987· 1 entry
Awarded MacArthur Fellows Program (1987).
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1979· 1 entry
In the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society a reviewer wrote of this work that it "initiated a generation of students to the subject when nothing else was available
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1974· 1 entry
Won Fields medal (1974).
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1967· 1 entry
The notes were mimeographed, bound in red cardboard, and distributed by Harvard's mathematics department under the title Introduction to Algebraic Geometry (Preliminary version of first 3 Chapters)
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1966· 1 entry
As Lectures on Curves on an Algebraic Surface, and in the Introduction Mumford wrote that the goal was to give an exposition of a "corollary" in Bourbaki seminar #221 given by Grothendieck in early 1961, Techniques de co
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1962· 1 entry
Mumford was appointed an assistant professor at Harvard
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1961· 1 entry
With a thesis entitled Existence of the moduli scheme for curves of any genus
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1951· 1 entry
Worked in the United Nations Department of Public Information
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1937· 1 entry
Born 1937-06-11.
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1933· 1 entry
Grace Schiott of Southport, Connecticut, and the couple had five children
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