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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.
Twenty new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences this year, strengthening departments and programs with their wide-ranging expertise and filling numerous leadership roles for the College and university.
More than 100 researchers gathered at Cornell University in June for SPA 2026 probability conference co-organized by College of Arts and Sciences mathematics professor Laurent Saloff-Coste and Cornell Duffield Engineering professor Gennady Samorodnitsky.
Two researchers in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences are among 13 from Cornell to receive National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Awards. Yunan Yang works on mathematical and computational methods for solving inverse problems, and Yao Yang studies chemical catalysis.
arXiv will leave Cornell July 1 to become an independent nonprofit . The platform, which came to Cornell in 2001 with founder Paul Ginsparg, physics professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, now exceeds 3 million research submissions.
Cornell College of Arts and Sciences undergraduates are among the 2026 Jiang Fellows completing global startup internships. This Cornell Duffield College of Engineering program is open to all juniors at Cornell interested in entrepreneurship.
Location: Malott Hall, 253
Location: Malott Hall, 251
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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.