Work in Dynamics
In 1985, he proved the No wandering domain theorem. The Parry-Sullivan invariant is named after him and the English mathematician Bill Parry.
In 1987, he proved Thurston's conjecture about the approximation of the Riemann map by circle packings together with Burton Rodin.
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