David Mumford

Awards

1. 1974

   Fields Medal

   Math

   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

   Shaw Prize — Mathematical Sciences

   Math

   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

   Wolf Prize — Mathematics

   Math

   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.