Charles Terence Clegg Wall is a British mathematician, who was particularly involved with the development of surgery theory. He was professor of mathematics at Liverpool University.
Establishing what came to be called Wall's theorem on 4-manifolds and h-cobordism:
C. T. C. Wall: Diffeomorphisms of 4-Manifolds Journal of London Mathematical Society s1–39 1 (1964) 131–140 [doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-39.1.131]
C. T. C. Wall: On simply-connected 4-manifolds, Journal of the London Mathematical Society s1–39 1 (1964) 141–-149 [doi:10.1112/jlms/s1-39.1.141, pdf]
On surgery and introducing L-theory (Hermitian K-theory):
On free group actions on n-spheres:
Ib Madsen, Charles B. Thomas, C. T. C. Wall, The topological spherical space form problem II: existence of free actions, Topology Volume 15, Issue 4, 1976, Pages 375-382 (doi:10.1016/0040-9383(76)90031-8)
Ib Madsen, Charles B. Thomas, C. T. C. Wall, Topological spherical space form problem III: Dimensional bounds and smoothing, Pacific J. Math. 106(1): 135-143 (1983) (pjm:1102721110)
C. T. C. Wall, On the Structure of Finite Groups with Periodic Cohomology, 381-413 in: Lie Groups: Structure, Actions, and Representations, Progress in Mathematics 306 Birkhäuser 2013 (doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-7193-6_16)
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