Dennis Gaitsgory, Herschel Smith Professor of Mathematics and Wilfried Schmid, Professor Emeritus, have both been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act...
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Our beloved senior preceptor, Jameel Al-Aidroos, passed away on March 18th. Jameel joined the department in the fall of 2008 after completing his doctorate at Berkeley. He had been teaching our undergraduates, mentoring our graduate student teachers, and providing both...
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Harvard's team of Sehun Kim '22, Sheldon Kieran Tan '23 and Franklyn Wang '22 placed second among 570 institutions in the 80th Annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the preeminent mathematics competition for undergraduate college students in the United States...
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Gabriel Goldberg, 2019 Harvard Mathematics Doctoral recipient, has been awarded the 2019 Sacks Prize by the Association for Symbolic Logic, an international organization supporting research and critical studies in logic. The Sacks Prize is awarded annually for the most outstanding...
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From Harvard Magazine: In Norman Juster's children’s book The Phantom Tollbooth, the land of infinity can be reached by following a line drawn on the ground for all eternity, then taking a left at the end. Fortunately, for viewers in...
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