Walter David Neumann (born 1 January 1946) is a
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mathematician
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who works in
topology
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,
geometric group theory
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, and
singularity theory
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. He is an emeritus professor at
Barnard College
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,
Columbia University
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. Neumann obtained his Ph.D. under the joint supervision of
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as ...
and Klaus Jänich at the
University of Bonn
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in 1969.
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He is a son of the mathematicians Bernhard Neumann
Bernhard Hermann Neumann (15 October 1909 – 21 October 2002) was a German-born British-Australian mathematician, who was a leader in the study of group theory.
Early life and education
After gaining a D.Phil. from Friedrich-Wilhelms Universit ...
and Hanna Neumann
Johanna (Hanna) Neumann (née von Caemmerer; 12 February 1914 – 14 November 1971) was a German-born mathematician who worked on group theory.
Biography
Neumann was born on 12 February 1914 in Lankwitz, Steglitz-Zehlendorf (today a distr ...
. His brother Peter M. Neumann
Peter Michael Neumann OBE (28 December 1940 – 18 December 2020) was a British mathematician. His fields of interest included the history of mathematics and Galois theory.
Biography
Born in December 1940, Neumann was a son of the German-bo ...
was also a mathematician.
He is in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
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References
External links
Google Scholar Profile
Home page at Columbia
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20th-century British mathematicians
Topologists
1946 births
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Living people