Anthony William Knapp (born 2 December 1941, Morristown, New Jersey)[1] is an American mathematician and professor emeritus at the State University of New York, Stony Brook working in representation theory.
Knapp lived in Baltimore, Maryland,[2] and graduated from the preparatory McDonogh School nearby.
[4] Knapp began his career as a C. L. E. Moore instructor for two years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,[4] before gaining a position as an assistant professor at Cornell University in 1967.
[6] Knapp began spending some of his time at SUNY Stony Brook in 1986 and took a full-time position there in 1990.
[4] In a series of papers from 1976 to 1984, Knapp and Gregg Zuckerman gave the classification of tempered representations of semisimple Lie groups.