About Walter Neumann
Lived 1946 – 2024 (aged 77–78). Walter Neumann was a British and American mathematician and university teacher.
Walter David Neumann (1 January 1946 – 24 September 2024) was a British-American mathematician who worked in topology, geometric group theory, and singularity theory. He was a professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. Neumann obtained his Ph.D. under the joint supervision of Friedrich Hirzebruch and Klaus Jänich at the University of Bonn in 1969.
He was a son of the mathematicians Bernhard Neumann and Hanna Neumann. He was in the Inaugural Class of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, starting from 2013.
Neumann died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 78.
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Who was Walter Neumann?
British mathematician (born 1946)
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Walter Neumann was born in 1946 in Caerphilly County Borough.
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Walter Neumann died on 24 September 2024.
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Walter Neumann was a mathematician and university teacher.
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Walter Neumann was British and American.
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