Undergraduate

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. Acquaintance with mathematics is also extremely useful for students in the social sciences and valuable for anyone interested in the full range of human culture and the ways of knowing the universe in which we live.

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Mathematics News

Mathematician Allen Hatcher receives inaugural book prize

Allen Hatcher, a geometric topologist, will receive the award for his book, “Algebraic Topology,” published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press.

Hatcher Awarded Inaugural Prize from AMS

Professor Emeritus Allen Hatcher will receive the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition for his book Algebraic Topology.

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Stretching shapes and building tools: topology at Cornell

“Cornell has had a considerable impact across many subfields of topology and across decades."

Bells Are Ringing for This Veteran Chimesmaster

The Cornell Chimes' advisor for nearly a quarter-century, Jennifer Courtley Lory-Moran ’96, MAT ’97, recently marked a carillon milestone.

Mathematician Al Schatz dies at 90

Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.

University celebrates top faculty for outstanding teaching, mentoring

Eleven teaching faculty from across the university have been awarded Cornell’s highest honors for graduate and undergraduate teaching, Interim President Michael I. Kotlikoff announced Oct. 22.

Brooks students enjoy immersive experience at national conventions

This summer a group of seven Cornell students traveled with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director, Erin King Sweeney, to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions to get an inside look at t...

Mathematician and redistricting expert joins Brooks School as radical collaboration hire

Moon Duchin is a mathematician and public policy expert who has advised numerous U.S. states on redistricting and whose lab has been at the forefront of an emerging discipline that merges data science and elections.

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