David Gauld (mathematician)

David Gauld is a professor of mathematics at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Within mathematics, he works in set-theoretic topology, with emphasis on applications to non-metrisable manifolds and topological properties of manifolds close to metrisability. Gauld has authored two monographs[1][2] and over 70 research papers.[3]

Gauld was born in June 1942, and grew up in Inglewood. He studied in Wanganui Technical College, Inglewood High School and New Plymouth Boys’ High School, and later obtained his BSc and MSc degrees with First Class Honours in Mathematics from the University of Auckland. Awarded a Fulbright Grant, he completed his PhD[4] in topology, in the University of California, Los Angeles. He was Head of the Department of Mathematics for 15 years and Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Research) for two and a half years at the University of Auckland.

Honours

In the years 1981–1982, Gauld served as president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society. He was the founding secretary of the New Zealand Mathematics Research Institute, and served in this position for 13 years, retiring in 2011. In 1997, he was awarded a New Zealand Science and Technology Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand.[5] In 2015, he became an honorary life member of the New Zealand Mathematical Society.[6][7] In 2016, he was made an officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to mathematics as part of the New Year Honours.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "David Gauld, Non-metrisable Manifolds, Springer 2014".
  2. ↑ "David Gauld, Differential Topology: an introduction, Marcel Dekker 1982 (republished Dover 2006)".
  3. ↑ "David Gauld's homepage".
  4. ↑ David Gauld at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. ↑ "Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society 72 (1998), page 4" (PDF).
  6. ↑ "Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society 125 (2015), page 27" (PDF).
  7. ↑ "Newsletter of the London Mathematical Society 455 (2016), page 13" (PDF).
  8. ↑ "New Years Honours: David Gauld finds perfect formula for 50-year career in maths". Stuff. 31 December 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2016.


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