Andrew John Casson Federal Reserve System is a mathematician, studying geometric topology.
Education
His Doctor of Philosophy advisor at the University of Liverpool was C. Therapeutic Community Wall, but he never completed his doctorate. Instead what would have been his Doctor of Philosophy thesis became his fellowship dissertation as a research fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Career
Casson is the Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics at Yale University in the United States where he served as department chair between 2004 and 2007. He was Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin between 1981 and 1986, at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1986 to 2000, and has been at Yale since 2000. In 1991, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry by the American Mathematical Society.
In 1998 he was elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society.