# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sylvain-cappell
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:38:01.226Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sylvain-cappell"
name: "Sylvain Cappell"
slug: "sylvain-cappell"
description: "Sylvain Edward Cappell is a Belgian American mathematician specializing in topology. He is a former student of William Browder at Princeton University and has spent most of his career at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he is now a Silver Professor of Mathematics."
tagline: "American mathematician and academic"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cappel_Heinze_Sinai.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1946-09-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.673686666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sylvain Cappell"
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    title: "سيلفان إدوارد كابيل"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Sylvain Cappell"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Cappell"
    title: "Sylvain Cappell"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvain_Cappell"
    title: "Sylvain Cappell"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump