Sylvain Cappell
Sylvain Cappell | |
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Sylvain Cappell (right) in 2013 | |
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) Brussels, Belgium |
| 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) is a Belgian American mathematician specializing in topology. He is a former student of William Browder at Princeton University and has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he is now a 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 (AMS).[3] Cappell served as its vice president from February 2010 until January 2013.[4][5] He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018.[6]
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