Andrew Casson
Andrew Casson | |
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Andrew Casson at Berkeley in 1991 Photo courtesy George M. Bergman | |
| Born | 1943 |
| Died | September 5, 2025 (aged 81–82) Fairfield, Connecticut, U.S.A. |
| Alma mater | University of Liverpool |
| Awards | Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry (1991) Fellow of the Royal Society (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Yale University University of California, Berkeley University of Texas at Austin |
| Doctoral advisor | C. T. C. Wall |
| Doctoral students | (in chronological order) Andrew Ranicki, Darren Long, Ken'ichi Kuga, Geoffrey Mess, Kevin Walker, Gregory Kuperberg, Marc Shepard, Douglas Jungreis, Edith Starr, Micah Fogel, Michah Sageev, Luis Valdez Sanchez, Daniel Allcock, Linda Green, Inkang Kim, Mayhew Wolff, Mahan Mitra, Kevin Hartshorn, Aaron Abrams, Stephen Bigelow, Danny Calegari, Sungjoon Ko, Karen Edwards, Saul Schleimer, Sang-Hyun Kim, Joan Licata, Helen Wong |
Andrew John Casson FRS (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.