Prof. Gil Strang's last lecture is ... Monday! Watch it via live stream: grinfeld.org/strang/
MIT Mathematics
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The Department of Mathematics at MIT is a world leader in pure and applied mathematical research and education.
- “Teaching has been a wonderful life,” says Linear Algebra champion and retiring math prof Gil Strang, who has spent 75% of his 88 years at MIT. @ScienceMIT
- “I am so grateful to everyone who likes linear algebra and sees its importance," said our retiring Math Prof Gil Strang. @ScienceMIT @MITOCW
- Watch: MIT students give longtime professor Gil Strang a standing ovation after his last lecture. @ScienceMIT
- Competitors in the annual #PutnamExam mathematics competition fill Walker Memorial. Good luck, everyone!
- The first woman to receive this prize, Dr. Uhlenbeck taught math at MIT early in her career. She is a founder of modern geometric analysis who produced “some of the most dramatic advances in mathematics in the last 40 years.”Congratuations, Karen Uhlenbeck, recipient of the Abel Prize 2019! #AbelPrize
- We mourn @mit Institute Professor Emeritus Isadore Singer, who died Feb. 11. His seminal Atiyah-Singer Index Theorem and other achievements earned him the Bôcher Prize, Natl Medal of Science, @amermathsoc Steele Prize, and Abel Prize. @mathmoves @mitscience
- In response to #RussianUkraineWar, our new #MITPRIMES program #YuliasDream honors mathlete war victim Yulia Zdanovskaya by offering free math enrichment and research program to talented students grades 9-11 from Ukraine. @ScienceMIT @MIT math.mit.edu/research/highs…
- Julia language co-creators win James H. Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software
- “His algorithms took the world by surprise, and ignited the field of quantum computing,” says @MIT_Physics Prof Alan Guth, fellow @brkthroughprize recipient who called @PeterShor1 to deliver the news of this year’s award. @MITScience
- Thanks QS World for saying we're #1 in math!
- Congrats to Prof. Lisa Sauermann, for her European Prize in Combinatorics at #Eurocomb2021 for her "profound contribution to combinatorics." #eurocomb2021 eurocomb2021.upc.edu/epc-2021/








