Dennis Parnell Sullivan Awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics

Dennis Parnell Sullivan Awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics

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Category : Awards Published on: March 25 2022

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  • Dennis Parnell Sullivan, Distinguished Professor in the Department of the Arts and Sciences of Mathematics, and the Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) at CUNY Graduate Center, has been awarded the 2022 Abel Prize for Mathematics.
  • The award has been given to him "for his extensive contributions to topology, and in particular it’s algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.
  • Topology is a field of mathematics which was born in the nineteenth century and has to do with properties of surfaces that do not change when they are deformed.
  • Dennis P. Sullivan has won numerous awards, among them the Steele Prize, the 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the 2014 Balzan Prize for Mathematics. He is also a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
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