C. T. C. Wall
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Charles Terence Clegg ("Terry") Wall (born 14 December 1936 in Bristol, England) is a leading British mathematician. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool.
His early work was in cobordism theory in algebraic topology. His research was then mainly in the area of manifolds, particularly geometric topology and related abstract algebra included in surgery theory, of which he was one of the founders.
His later work has been in singularity theory, singularities being in effect our best geometric representations of the ways in which manifolds can have their local structure broken down; especially the areas of isolated singularities, of differentiable maps and algebraic varieties.
His notable students include Andrew Casson.
[edit] Awards
- 1965 – Berwick Prize;
- 1969 – elected Fellow of the Royal Society;
- 1976 – Senior Whitehead Prize;
- 1988 – Sylvester Medal
[edit] External links
- C. T. C. Wall at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J. & Robertson, Edmund F., “C. T. C. Wall”, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- His contact details and list of recent publications
- Surgery theory
