Background
Schmid, Wilfried was born on May 28, 1943 in Hamburg, Germany. Son of Wolfgang and Kathe (Erfling) Schmid. came to the United States, 1960.
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Wilfried Schmid
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Education
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley in 1967 under the direction of Phillip Griffiths, and then taught at Berkeley and Columbia University, becoming a Full Professor at Columbia at age 27.
Career
Schmid"s early work concerns the construction of discrete series representations of semi-simple Lie groups. Schmid along with his student Henryk Hecht proved Blattner"s conjecture in 1975. In the 1970s he described the singularities of the Griffith"s period map by applying Lie-theoretic methods to problems in algebraic geometry.
Schmid has been very involved in K–12 mathematics education both nationally and internationally.
His interest arose in 1999 after being disturbed by the experiences of his 2nd-grade daughter in her mathematics class. He was heavily involved in the drafting of the Massachusetts Mathematics Curriculum Framework in 2000.
Later, he served on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel of the United States. Department of Education. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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American Mathematical Society.
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