“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
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.”
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
“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
