Dennis Sullivan
American mathematician (born 1941) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Dennis Parnell Sullivan (born February 12, 1941) is an American mathematician known for his work in algebraic topology, geometric topology, and dynamical systems. He holds the Albert Einstein Chair at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is a distinguished professor at Stony Brook University.
For other uses, see Dennis Sullivan (disambiguation).
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Born | Dennis Parnell Sullivan (1941-02-12) February 12, 1941 (age 83) Port Huron, Michigan, U.S. |
Education | Rice University (BA) Princeton University (MA, PhD) |
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Fields | Topology |
Institutions | Stony Brook University City University of New York |
Thesis | Triangulating Homotopy Equivalences (1966) |
Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
Doctoral students | Harold Abelson Curtis T. McMullen |
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Sullivan was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010 and the Abel Prize in 2022.