David Mumford Ph.D.

National Medal of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science 2009

Mathematician. Algebraic geometry, Vision and Pattern Theory. Pure and Applied math. History and Philosophy of math, Math education. Sailing.

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My PhD advisor, Oscar Zariski. His personality and his life were as extraordinary as his research. To his Carol Parikh's biography, 'The Unreal Life of Oscar Zariski' I added a "Foreword for non-mathematicians" in an attempt to give a non-technical description of what algebraic geometry is all about for lay readers. I wrote his obituary for the National Academy of Science.

My inspiration, Ulf Grenander, at his summer house in Sweden. He was the first to understand that Bayesian inference and graphical models were the best mathematical tools with which to model virtually all cognitive processes.

1968: from left to right, Musili, Seshadri, Narasimhan, Raghunathan and I standing in front of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India. Note the sweaters: the TIFR was heavily air-conditioned.

The Chennai Mathematical Institute, a wonderful lively college founded by Seshadri second from left in previous photo.

“One comes to be of just such stuff as that on which the mind is set” - Maithri Upanishath, VI.34:3

“…the peace that is found in libraries and laboratories…” - Louis Pasteur

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