Dennis Barden
Dennis Barden | |
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Dennis Barden at the Pembroke Mathematicians' Dinner 2018 | |
| Born | 2 March 1936 |
| Citizenship | British |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Geometry, Topology |
| Institutions | DPMMS, University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | On the structure and classification of differential manifolds (1964) |
| Doctoral advisor | C. T. C. Wall |
Dennis Barden is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge working in the fields of geometry and topology. He is known for his classification of the simply connected compact 5-manifolds and, together with Barry Mazur and John R. Stallings, for having proved the s-cobordism theorem. Barden received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1964 under the supervision of C. T. C. Wall.