Citation | David Mumford received the Fields Medal in 1974 for his fundamental contributions to algebraic geometry, notably his creation of geometric invariant theory, revitalizing a classical subject. His work on moduli spaces has recently found unexpected applications in theoretical physics. In the early 80s Mumford switched his attention to understanding vision as a computational problem and developed with Shah the celebrated " Mumford-Shah functional " in the theory of image segmentation.
He was elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1975, and was President of the International Mathematical Union from 1995-98. |