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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Harvard senior and mathematics concentrator Natalia Pacheco-Tallaj was awarded the 2020 Alice T. Schafer prize on Thursday, January 16 by the Association for Women in Mathematics at the Joint Math Meetings in Denver, CO. The Schafer Prize is given to...
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Harvard Mathematics Department graduate student Alexander Smith, who is expected to receive his Ph.D. in 2020, was awarded the 2019 inaugural David Goss Prize in Number Theory at the JNT Biennial conference in Cetraro, Italy. The newly established David Goss...
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It is with sadness that we have to announce that Gerald Sacks passed away on October 4th, 2019. Gerald Sacks was a logician who served as a professor at the Harvard Mathematics Department for 40 years, from 1972 to 2012....
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We have to share the sad news that our colleague John Tate passed away today, October 16, 2019. John Tate was a Professor at the Harvard mathematics department from 1954 to 1990 and returned to Harvard in 2009 as Professor...
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