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  1. 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 .

  2. Mar 24, 2022 · Mar 24, 2022 - 07:37 EDT. One day in 1966, there was an intellectual shipwreck in the North Sea. The American mathematician Dennis Sullivan was traveling on the deck of a boat headed to...

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  4. Mar 23, 2022 · John Griffin/Stony Brook University. Dennis Sullivan has always been driven by mathematical insights that are general and beautiful and have the power to amaze — “something that grabs you, like a piece of music,” he said. An encounter with one such theorem during his second year of college spurred him to switch his major from chemical ...

  5. Born. 12 February 1941. Port Huron, Michigan, USA. Summary. Dennis Sullivan is an American mathematician known for his work on topology, both algebraic and geometric, and on dynamical systems. He has been awarded major mathematical prizes including the Wolf Prize and the Abel Prize. View nine larger pictures. Biography.

  6. Mar 28, 2022 · The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters has awarded the 2022 Abel Prize to Dennis Sullivan, a 1966 Ph.D. graduate of Princeton, “for his groundbreaking contributions to topology.” The Abel Prize is widely considered equivalent to a Nobel prize for mathematics.

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