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Also Known As David Bryant Mumford
Born June 11, 1937 (age 87) • England
Awards And Honors Fields Medal (1974)
Subjects Of Study invariant
Sir William Hodge
British mathematician
Alexandre Grothendieck
German-French mathematician
John Willard Milnor, 2011.
John Willard Milnor
American mathematician
Ngo Bao Chau
Ngo Bao Chau
Vietnamese-French mathematician
Andrei Okounkov
Russian mathematician
Sergei Novikov
Russian mathematician
Vladimir Voevodsky
Russian mathematician
Pierre Deligne
Belgian mathematician
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
German mathematician
Hironaka Heisuke
Japanese mathematician
Hörmander, Lars V.
Lars V. Hörmander
Swedish mathematician
Mori Shigefumi
Japanese mathematician
Maxim Kontsevich
Russian mathematician
Arthur Cayley, detail of an oil painting by W.H. Longmaid, 1884; in the collection of Trinity College, Cambridge, England.
Arthur Cayley
British mathematician
James Joseph Sylvester
English mathematician
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah, 2004.
Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
British mathematician
Klaus Friedrich Roth
British mathematician
Simon Donaldson
British mathematician
Alan Baker
British mathematician
Timothy Gowers
British mathematician

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