Dennis Barden

Dennis Barden is a mathematician at the University of Cambridge working in the fields of geometry and topology.[1] He is known for his classification of the simply connected compact 5-manifolds[2] and, together with Barry Mazur and John R. Stallings, for having proved the s-cobordism theorem.[3] Barden received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1964 under the supervision of C. T. C. Wall.[4]

Dennis Barden
Dennis Barden at the Pembroke Mathematicians' Dinner 2018
Born (1936-03-02) 2 March 1936
Kingswood, Surrey, UK
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Scientific career
FieldsGeometry, Topology
InstitutionsDPMMS, University of Cambridge
ThesisOn the structure and classification of differential manifolds (1964)
Doctoral advisorC. T. C. Wall

Academic Positions

Barden is a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge[5] and emeritus fellow of Pembroke College. In 1991, he became Director of Studies for mathematics at Pembroke College, succeeding Raymond Lickorish. He held the position until Michaelmas 2003, and in his time saw a great increase in the number of applicants for mathematics, with consistently high performances in Tripos exams.[6] He remains an active supervisor at Pembroke and Girton College.

Selected publications
  • Barden, Dennis; Thomas, Charles (2003), An introduction to differential manifolds, London: Imperial College Press, doi:10.1142/p285, ISBN 1-86094-354-3, MR 1992457
  • Barden, D. (1965), "Simply connected five-manifolds", Annals of Mathematics, Second Series, 82 (3): 365–385, doi:10.2307/1970702, JSTOR 1970702, MR 0184241

References
  1. Faculty profile, Univ. of Cambridge, retrieved 20 February 2015.
  2. Geiges, Hansjörg (2008), An Introduction to Contact Topology, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics, vol. 109, Cambridge University Press, p. 367, ISBN 9781139467957.
  3. Kreck, Matthias; Lück, Wolfgang (2005), The Novikov Conjecture: Geometry and Algebra, Oberwolfach Seminars, vol. 33, Springer, p. 56, ISBN 9783764373153.
  4. Dennis Barden at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Girton College - Fellows and Teaching Officers in Mathematics and related subjects". www.girton.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. "Pembroke Mathematicians". Retrieved 25 April 2018.


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