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University President Neil L. Rudenstine named world famous mathematician Barry Mazur the Gerhard Gade University Professor two weeks...
...Mazur, on leave this year as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said he was genuinely thrilled to receive the professorship, which is considered one of the University's most prestigious posts...
...addition to being elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982, Mazur has been awarded the Cole Prize for a theorem concerning elliptic curves...
...Mazur is well-known for his work on topology, and his accomplishments in the area of number theory are widely seen as a factor in the 1996 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles...
...love technology, but I am skeptical about many of its uses," Mazur said. "Many things look impressive but the educational benefit is untested. Testing leads to better understanding of what information technology can do to facilitate teaching... Information technology should teach what we're already teaching better...