David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University.
Mumford was born in Worth, West Sussex in England, of an English father and American mother. His father William start...
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David Bryant Mumford (born 11 June 1937) is a mathematician known for distinguished work in algebraic geometry, and then for research into vision and pattern theory. He is currently a University Professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University, having previously had a long academic career at Harvard University.
Mumford was born in Worth, West Sussex in England, of an English father and American mother. His father William started an experimental school in Tanzania and worked for the then newly created United Nations during his childhood.
After attending the Phillips Exeter Academy, Mumford went to Harvard, where he became a student of Oscar Zariski. At Harvard, he became a Putnam fellow in 1955 and 1956. He completed his Ph.D. in 1961, with a thesis entitled Existence of the moduli scheme for curves of any genus.
He met his wife Erika Jentsch at Radcliffe College. She was an awards-winning poet, and had a doctorate in Celtic Languages and Literature from Harvard....
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