Richard Maunder

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Born
Charles Richard Francis Maunder

(1937-11-23)23 November 1937
Southsea, Hampshire
Died5 June 2018(2018-06-05) (aged 80)
Alma mater
Richard Maunder
Born
Charles Richard Francis Maunder

(1937-11-23)23 November 1937
Southsea, Hampshire
Died5 June 2018(2018-06-05) (aged 80)
Academic background
EducationRoyal Grammar School, High Wycombe
Alma mater
ThesisCohomology Operations of the Nth Kind (1962)
Doctoral advisorFrank Adams
Academic work
DisciplineMathematics, musicology
Doctoral studentsNigel Martin

Charles Richard Francis Maunder (23 November 1937 – 5 June 2018) was a British mathematician and musicologist.

Maunder was educated at the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe, and Jesus College, Cambridge, before going on to complete a PhD at Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1962. After teaching at Southampton University he became a fellow of Christ’s in 1964.[1]

Mathematics

Maunder's field of work was algebraic topology. He used Postnikov systems to give an alternative construction of the Atiyah–Hirzebruch spectral sequence. With this construction, the differentials can be better described.[2][3] The family of higher cohomology operations on mod-2 cohomology that he constructed has been discussed by several authors.[4][5][6] In 1981 he gave a short proof of the Kan-Thurston theorem,[7] according to which for every path-connected topological space X there is a discrete group π such that there is a homology isomorphism of the Eilenberg–MacLane space K(π,1) after X. His textbook Algebraic Topology (1970) continues to circulate in the 1996 Dover edition.

Musicology

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