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Dennis Sullivan
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American mathematician
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Dennis Sullivan is an American mathematician and topologist who has served as a university teacher. Born in Port Huron in 1941, he was educated at Rice University and Princeton University, where he completed his doctoral studies under William Browder. Sullivan has held positions at the City University of New York, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Stony Brook University. His doctoral students include Hal Abelson and Curtis T. McMullen.
Sullivan is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Irish Academy. He has received the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, the Balzan Prize, the Élie Cartan Prize, and the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry. His Erdős number is 3.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 9
Top works
- A picturesque tour through Ireland
- Conjugating Love
- Geometric Topology : Localization, Periodicity And Galois Symmetry
- Nod's As Good As a Wink ...
- 2004 vacation guide to Disney World for scrapbookers
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 17
- Total plays
- 22
Composer, percussionist, and electronic musician Dennis Sullivan writes music that revels in collage textures, quick jump cuts between contrasting expressive worlds, and stylistic allusions. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Dennis+Sullivan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The NCEP/NCAR 40-Year Reanalysis Project
· 1996 · cited 18,867x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology
· 1993 · cited 13,308x
- Matrix Elasticity Directs Stem Cell Lineage Specification
· 2006 · cited 12,515x
- Self-Reports in Organizational Research: Problems and Prospects
· 1986 · cited 12,080x
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Key facts
- Born
- Dennis Parnell Sullivan , ( 1941-02-12 ) February 12, 1941 (age 85) , Port Huron , Michigan , U.S.
- Education
- Rice University ( BA ), Princeton University ( MA , PhD )
- Known for
- Connes–Donaldson–Sullivan–Teleman index theorem Parry–Sullivan invariant Sullivan conjecture Density conjecture Localization of a topological space No-wandering-domain theorem Rational homotopy theory String topology
- Awards
- Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1971) National Medal of Science (2004) Leroy P. Steele Prize (2006) Wolf Prize (2010) Balzan Prize (2014) Abel Prize (2022)
- 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 , Manuel Rivera
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Sullivan was awarded the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 2010 and the Abel Prize in 2022.
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