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Andrew Casson was a mathematician, topologist and university teacher. Andrew Casson studied at Trinity College. Awards on record include Fellow of the Royal Society and Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1991).
My Take
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.
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1. Profile
- 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
- 1943
- Occupation
- mathematician / topologist / university teacher
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Goat
2. Background
- University
- Trinity College
Awards & achievements
- Fellow of the Royal Society
- 1991 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
3. Links
4. About this entry
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