Walter Richard Talbot was the fourth African American to earn a PhD in Mathematics. His doctoral degree is from the University of Pittsburgh in 1934 in geometric group theory. A contemporary research program was the determination of fundamental domains of finite group actions on complex vector spaces. His thesis is not widely available, and this note gives a brief synopsis of the main results of his thesis, expressed using modern mathematical methods and language, and placed in general context.

翻译：Walter Richard Talbot是第四位获得数学博士学位的非裔美国人。他的博士学位是1934年匹兹堡大学的几何组理论学位。当代的一项研究方案是确定复杂矢量空间有限群体行动的基本领域。他的论文没有广泛提供,本说明简要概述了他论文的主要结果,这些结果是以现代数学方法和语言表达的,并被放在总体背景中。