# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walter-neumann
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:00:19.055Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/walter-neumann"
name: "Walter Neumann"
slug: "walter-neumann"
description: "Walter David Neumann 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."
tagline: "British mathematician (born 1946)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walter_Neumann_1973_(portion_B).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-01-01"
deathDate: "2024-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  historical:           3.271814666666667
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  profileCompleteness:  68
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_David_Neumann"
    title: "Walter David Neumann"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Neumann"
    title: "Walter Neumann"
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    title: "Нойман, Уолтер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations