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American Mathematical Society recently issued the following announcement.

Dennis Parnell Sullivan of Stony Brook University has won the 2022 Abel Prize for “groundbreaking contributions to topology in its broadest sense, and in particular its algebraic, geometric and dynamical aspects.”

Among Sullivan’s significant results in topology is his proof of the Adams conjecture, “and in dynamical systems he proved that rational maps have no wandering domains, solving a 60-year-old conjecture,” according to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, which awarded the prize. “His insistent probing for fundamental understanding, and his capacity to see analogues between diverse areas of mathematics and build bridges between them, has forever changed the field.”

A charismatic and lively member of the mathematics community, Sullivan has found deep connections between a dazzling variety of areas of mathematics.

“Dennis P. Sullivan has repeatedly changed the landscape of topology by introducing new concepts, proving landmark theorems, answering old conjectures and formulating new problems that have driven the field forwards,” says Hans Munthe-Kaas, chair of the Abel Committee. “Sullivan has moved from area to area, seemingly effortlessly, using algebraic, analytic and geometric ideas like a true virtuoso.”

A fellow of the American Mathematical Society, Sullivan has won numerous other awards such as the 2006 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement, the 2010 Wolf Prize in Mathematics and the 2014 Balzan Prize for Mathematics. Read more in the official announcement.

Original source can be found here.