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Andrew Casson was a mathematician, topologist and university teacher. Andrew Casson died on September 5, 2025. Education on record includes 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. Born in London and trained at Trinity College, Cambridge, he left 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 – September 5, 2025
- 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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Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.
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