David Mumford
American mathematician · dam.brown.edu
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... Wikipedia
Place of birth: Worth, United Kingdom
Awards: Wolf Prize in Mathematics, Fields Medal, MacArthur Fellowship, and more
Notable students: Song-Chun Zhu, Kathryn Leonard, M. Nitzberg, and more
Children: Steve Mumford
Research interests: Algebraic Geometry and Computer Vision
Fields: Mathematics
Books
Pattern Theory: The Stochastic Analysis of Real-World Signals
2010
The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes: Includes the Michigan Lectures (1974) on Curves and Their Jacobians
1967
The Red Book of Varieties and Schemes
2013
Indra's Pearls
2002
Geometric Invariant Theory
1965
Algebraic Geometry I: Complex Projective Varieties
1976