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Saunders Mac Lane, an influential mathematician and former Harvard professor who co-founded category theory, died on April 14 from internal bleeding due to constrictive heart disease...
...think he is an outstanding mathematician,” Eliashberg said. “We are certainly happy for Harvard and sorry for ourselves...
...effort to remedy Harvard’s relative weakness in a critical field, Harvard has succeeded in luring a star mathematician away from Stanford University to strengthen its own mathematics department...
...site, part of the “Harvard At Home” initiative to help far-flung graduates keep in touch with campus events, contains several lengthy passages that are lifted verbatim from other sources without any attribution. The site includes a 69-word section on Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler that is identical to an article in the computerized encyclopedia Microsoft Encarta, as well as a 46-word passage on Euler that appears to have been copied straight from Encyclopedia Britannica. The site also published a 65-word passage that previously appeared verbatim in a 1997 law review article...
Lewis said that if an applicant applies as a mathematician, there is no expectation that after arriving at Harvard, she must be a mathematician. “We wouldn’t feel a sense of betrayal if she went into history or Japanese,” she said...