Andrew Casson

Andrew Casson is exactly the kind of figure I find quietly heroic. No social media, no public photos, no height listed, just a body of work in geometric topology so significant it earned him the Veblen Prize and a Royal Society fellowship. He spent his career as an endowed professor at Yale and passed away in 2025. What strikes me is how completely his reputation rests on substance rather than image. In an age obsessed with visibility, a mind that lets its theorems do all the talking feels almost radical. I tip my hat to him.

Name (English)

Andrew Casson

Name (Japanese)

アンドリュー・キャッソン

Reading

あんどりゅー・きゃっそん

Born

January 1, 1943 (age 83)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Goat

Occupation

mathematician / topologist / university teacher

University

Trinity College

Awards & achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Society
• 1991 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%A5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%83%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3

Tags

• mathematician
• topologist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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