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Demystifying Math 55

By Anastasia Yefremova Few undergraduate level classes have the distinction of nation-wide recognition that Harvard University’s Math 55 has. Officially comprised of Mathematics 55A “Studies in Algebra and Group Theory”...
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Michael Simkin

Michael Simkin Answers n-Queens Problem

Michael Simkin, post-doctoral fellow at Harvard's CMSA, has an answer for the 150-year-old chess-based n-queens problem. An article on the n-queens problem and its answer is in The Harvard Gazette....
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Mike Hopkins Awarded Veblen Prize

Michael Hopkins--Department Chair and George Putnam Professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics--has been awarded the American Mathematical Society's Oscar Veblen Prize in Geometry for co-authorship of the paper “On the...
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