Charles Terence Clegg ("Terry") Wall is a leading British mathematician, educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool, where he was first appointed Professor in 1965. From 1978 to 1980 he was the President of the London Mathematical Society. His early work was in cobordism theory in algebraic topology; this includes his 1959 Cambridge Ph.
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- Charles Terence Clegg ("Terry") Wall is a leading British mathematician, educated at Marlborough and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is an emeritus professor of the University of Liverpool, where he was first appointed Professor in 1965. From 1978 to 1980 he was the President of the London Mathematical Society. His early work was in cobordism theory in algebraic topology; this includes his 1959 Cambridge Ph. D thesis entitled "Algebraic aspects of cobordism", written under the direction of Frank Adams and Christopher Zeeman. 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 1970 research monograph "Surgery on Compact Manifolds" is a major reference work in geometric topology. In 1971 he conjectured that every finitely generated group is accessible. This conjecture is known as "Wall's conjecture". It motivated much progress in the understanding of splittings of groups. In 1985 Martin J. Dunwoody proved the conjecture for the class of finitely presented groups. The resolution of the full conjecture took until 1991 when, surprising to most mathematicians at the time, Dunwoody found a finitely generated group that is not accessible and hence the conjecture turned out to be not correct in its general formulation. C.T. C Wall's work since the mid 1970's has mostly been in singularity theory as developed by R. Thom, J. Milnor and V. Arnold, and especially concerns the classification of isolated singularities of differentiable maps and of algebraic varieties. He has written two research monographs on singularity theory, "The Geometry of Topological Stability" (1989) (containing a great deal of original work) with Andrew du Plessis, and "Singular Points of Plane Curves" (2004). His notable students include Andrew Casson, Francis Johnson, David Mond, Andrew du Plessis, and Mark Roberts.
- Charles Terence Clegg „Terry“ Wall ist ein englischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Topologie beschäftigt. Wall besuchte das Marlborough College in der Grafschaft Wiltshire und studierte dann am Trinity College der Universität Cambridge, dessen „Fellow“ er von 1959 bis 1964 war. Wall wurde 1960 bei Erik Christopher Zeeman promoviert (Algebraic aspects of cobordism). 1960/61 war er am Institute for Advanced Study. 1964 wurde er Reader in Oxford (und Fellow des St. Catherine College) und 1965 Professor an der Universität Liverpool, wo er bis zu seiner Emeritierung blieb. Wall beschäftigte sich zunächst mit der Kobordismentheorie und war einer der Begründer der Surgery-Theorie (Chirurgie) in der geometrischen Topologie. Später beschäftigte er sich mit der Theorie der Singularitäten in der Differentialtopologie und in der Topologie algebraischer Varietäten. 1965 erhielt er den Junior-Berwick-Preis, 1976 den Senior-Whitehead-Preis und 1988 den Pólya-Preis der London Mathematical Society. 1969 wurde er in die Royal Society gewählt, deren Sylvester-Medaille er 1988 erhielt. 1972 bis 1980 und 1992 bis 1996 war er im Council der London Mathematical Society, deren Präsident er 1978 bis 1980 war. 1990 wurde er Mitglied der dänischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Zu seinen Doktoranden zählen J. Michael Boardman und Andrew Casson.
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- Charles Terence Clegg „Terry“ Wall ist ein englischer Mathematiker, der sich mit Topologie beschäftigt. Wall besuchte das Marlborough College in der Grafschaft Wiltshire und studierte dann am Trinity College der Universität Cambridge, dessen „Fellow“ er von 1959 bis 1964 war. Wall wurde 1960 bei Erik Christopher Zeeman promoviert (Algebraic aspects of cobordism). 1960/61 war er am Institute for Advanced Study. 1964 wurde er Reader in Oxford (und Fellow des St.
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