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Andrew Casson

アンドリュー・キャッソン　/　あんどりゅー・きゃっそん

Mathematician

January 1, 1943 (age 83)

mathematician
topologist
university teacher

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.

Overview

Andrew John Casson FRS (January 22, 1943 – September 5, 2025) was a mathematician, working in the area of geometric topology. Casson was the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University until his retirement.

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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: January 1, 1943 (age 83)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Goat
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: mathematician / topologist / university teacher

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Trinity College

Awards & achievements

Fellow of the Royal Society
1991 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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

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