Harvard scored third place among the winning teams at the 86th annual William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition. Over 4,300 students from over 480 institutions participated in the highly competitive exam administered by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) this past...
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Laura DeMarco was appointed the Hollis Professor of Mathematicks and Natural Philosophy. The Hollis Professorship is the second oldest named chair at Harvard and the oldest chair in science in all of the...
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Have reports of AI replacing mathematicians been greatly exaggerated? Artificial intelligence has attained an impressive series of feats — solving problems from the International Math Olympiad, conducting encyclopedic surveys of academic literature, and even finding solutions to some longstanding research...
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It is with heavy hearts that we say farewell to Professor Emeritus Benedict Gross, who passed away in December, 2025. Gross joined the Harvard Department of Mathematics as an undergraduate in the '60s and taught here until 2015. His academic career...
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The American Mathematical Society (AMS) awarded the 2026 Leroy P. Steele Prize for Seminal Contribution to Research to Harvard Merton Professor of Mathematics Horng-Tzer Yau, László Erdős, and Benjamin Schlein. The prize is awarded for a paper—whether recent or not—that...
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