Sylvain Cappell
Sylvain Cappell | |
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 Sylvain Cappell (right) in 2013 | |
| Born | 1946 (age 78–79) Brussels, Belgium |
| Nationality | Belgian, American |
| Alma mater | Princeton University Columbia University |
| Awards | AMS Distinguished Public Service Award (2018) Guggenheim Fellowship (1989–90) Sloan Fellowship (1971–72) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | New York University |
| Doctoral advisor | William Browder |
| Doctoral students | Shmuel Weinberger |
Sylvain Edward Cappell (born 1946), a Belgian American mathematician and former student of William Browder at Princeton University, is a topologist who has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU, where he is now the Silver Professor of Mathematics.
He was born in Brussels, Belgium and immigrated with his parents to New York City in 1950 and grew up largely in this city.[1] In 1963, as a senior at the Bronx High School of Science, he won first place in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search for his work on "The Theory of Semi-cyclical Groups with Special Reference to Non-Aristotelian Logic." He then graduated from Columbia University in 1966, winning the Van Amringe Mathematical Prize.[2]
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3] Cappell was elected and served as a vice president of the AMS for the term of February 2010 through January 2013.[4][5] In 2018 he was elected to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Responses to NYC DOE questionnaire". nychold.org. Archived from the original on 2004-07-18.
- ^ "CCT Donors 2009–10 | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
- ^ "2009 Election Results" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
- ^ "AMS Officers". American Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25.
- ^ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- Belgian emigrants to the United States
- 20th-century American mathematicians
- 21st-century American mathematicians
- American topologists
- Columbia College (New York) alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
- Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
- Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
- Scientists from Brussels
- Sloan Research Fellows