Sylvain Cappell

Sylvain Cappell
Sylvain Cappell (right) in 2013
Born1946 (age 79–80)
Brussels, Belgium
Alma materPrinceton University
Columbia University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
WorkplacesNew York University
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]

References

  1. ↑ "Responses to NYC DOE questionnaire". nychold.org. Archived from the original on 2004-07-18.
  2. ↑ "CCT Donors 2009–10 | Columbia College Today". www.college.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
  3. ↑ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2012-11-10.
  4. ↑ "2009 Election Results" (PDF). American Mathematical Society. Retrieved 2017-09-09.
  5. ↑ "AMS Officers". American Mathematical Society. Archived from the original on 2013-01-25.
  6. ↑ "Member Directory | American Academy of Arts and Sciences".
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