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The Department of Mathematics at Cornell University is a world leader in graduate and undergraduate mathematics education, and mathematical research. The 43 tenured and tenure-track faculty represent a broad spectrum of current mathematical research, while a lively graduate student population represents the global reach of department.
Topologists study geometric objects and how they hold up when deformed by stretching, twisting or bending. They explore how these objects fit together, how you can reshape them and what you can do with them in any number of dimensions.
Click here to read more about the impacts Cornell mathematicians have made on the field of topology over decades.
Named for Cornell’s first president, the program sponsors scholars and public intellectuals in the life sciences, physical sciences, humanities, social sciences and the arts and this semester features several connections with the College of Arts and Sciences.
Five Cornell faculty members are among 126 early-career researchers across North America who have won 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The 12 early-career scholars will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Four faculty from A&S have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching.
Mészáros’ research focuses on algebraic and geometric combinatorics.
“Nexus, to me, was also a professional development experience."
The portraits are part of a series by Christopher Michel, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s inaugural artist-in-residence.
A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.
Mathematics is the language of modern science; basic training in the discipline is essential for those who want to understand, as well as for those who want to take part in, the important scientific developments of our time.
The Department of Mathematics at Cornell University offers a rigorous graduate program, leading to the Ph.D. degree, that combines study and research opportunities under the direction of an internationally known faculty.