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Dennis Sullivan
Dennis Parnell Sullivan 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.
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Born 12 February 1941 · Q726376
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Awarded Abel Prize (2022).
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2020· 1 entry
Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,227 times.
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded Balzan Prize (2014).
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013).
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded Wolf Prize in Mathematics (2010).
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2006· 1 entry
Awarded Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement (2006).
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2004· 1 entry
Won National Medal of Science (2004).
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2001· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctorate at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (2001).
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded King Faisal International Prize in Science (1994).
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Awarded King Faisal Prize (1994).
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1993· 1 entry
Published “The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology” in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute — cited 13,344 times.
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1989· 1 entry
And a joint paper by Alain Connes, Sullivan, and Nicolae Teleman in 1994
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1987· 1 entry
Sullivan and Burton Rodin proved Thurston's conjecture about the approximation
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1985· 1 entry
Sullivan proved the no-wandering-domain theorem
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1981· 2 entries
Awarded Élie Cartan Prize (1981).
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Became the Albert Einstein Chair in Science (Mathematics) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and reduced his duties at the IHÉS to a half-time appointment
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1975· 1 entry
Sullivan and Bill Parry introduced the topological Parry–Sullivan invariant for flows in one-dimensional dynamical systems
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
Sullivan put forward the radical concept that, within homotopy theory, spaces could directly "be broken into boxes" (or localized), a procedure hitherto applied to the algebraic constructs made from them
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1966· 1 entry
With his thesis, Triangulating homotopy equivalences, under the supervision of William Browder
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-02-12.
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