When West Virginia University’s administration proposed nixing the college’s graduate programs in mathematics this summer, resistance to the recommendation cropped up almost instantly. Critics ...
“Topology is the study of whether there are holes in a space,” says mathematician Dennis Sullivan of the City University of New York Graduate Center. He just won one of the most prestigious awards in ...
One recent afternoon in Cambridge, Mass., John Urschel and I strolled along the Charles River on the way to his office at MIT, where he’s pursuing a Ph.D. in mathematics. We were passing some of the ...