David Mumford

Prix

1. 1974

   médaille Fields

   Mathématiques

   Contributed to problems of the existence and structure of varieties of moduli, varieties whose points parametrize isomorphism classes of some type of geometric object. Also made several important contributions to the theory of algebraic surfaces.

2. 2006

   Prix Shaw — Sciences mathématiques

   Mathématiques

   For David Mumford's contributions to mathematics, and to the new interdisciplinary fields of pattern theory and vision research; and for Wentsun Wu's contributions to the new interdisciplinary field of mathematics mechanization.

3. 2008

   Prix Wolf — Mathématiques

   Mathématiques

   for his work on algebraic surfaces, on geometric invariant theory, and for laying the foundations of the modern algebraic theory of moduli of curves and theta functions.