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Mathematics

Mathematics

Students Compete in Harvard-MIT Math Tournament

Hundreds of high schoolers flooded the Science Center Saturday to compete in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament­—a prestigious competition that attracts students from across the country.

Advising

SEAS Boasts Advising Based On Classwork, Cake, and Nerdy Camaraderie

As the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences has almost doubled in undergraduate enrollment since 2008, the rapidly growing school has maintained a firm commitment to intimate, faculty-led advising.

Mathematics

Harvard Math Team Clinches Putnam

A team of three undergraduates clinched the first place title at the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition, the 28th time a Harvard team has won, the Mathematical Association of America announced last week.

Events

Former Student Talks Cartoons

The work of a cartoonist is unique because “one graphic can tell a story,” said Lawrence R. “Larry” Gonick ’67, a Harvard mathematics student who went on to dedicate his career to depicting big ideas through comics.

Music

Freshman O’Dorney Juggles Math and Music

Evan M. O’Dorney ’15 scribbles on a white board in a cramped Canaday single strewn with laundry and empty peanut butter jars. His face lights up as he demonstrates how to identify patterns using colorful, maze-like diagrams that he has constructed.

Mathematics

Math Department To Update Facilities

While science departments across the University vie for state-of-the-art laboratory spaces and new equipment, renovations to the mathematics common room on the fourth floor of the Science Center will give Harvard’s math department increased access to a very different kind of technology come October: blackboards.

SEAS

CS Will Offer New Class on Discrete Math

The Computer Science Department plans to debut a new course—Computer Science 20: “Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science”— next spring that will better prepare students for the required proof-intensive course CS 121.

SEAS

Professors Reconsider Applied Math 50

Applied Mathematics 50, a survey course with more than 100 students, may undergo restructuring next fall as faculty members reconsider its future within the concentration curriculum.

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Students and Professors experiment with symmetry and geometric shapes using limbs of Barbies in Vi Hart's Playing with Math workshop.

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Students and professors team up to discuss the possibilities of using wooden spoons to construct a symmetric design of their own creation.

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Steve Bobrow demonstrates how to use the ear extensions he just built out of foil plates and solo cups.

Blowing Up Math with Vi Hart
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Vi Hart Dazzles Pfoho with Balloon Polyhedrons

Vi Hart, recreational mathemusician perhaps best known for her videos about doodling in math class, is in residence in Pforzheimer House this week. Last night, she held a workshop where Pforzheimer and College affiliates—including this Flyby correspondent—learned to make polyhedrons and other mathematical objects using balloons.

On Campus

Math 23's Boy Genius

Looming in the shadows of multivariable calculus and linear algebra proofs, a new breed of brain has infiltrated the Math ...

FAS

Mathematics Chair Co-authors Book on String Theory

Mathematics Department Chair Shing-Tung Yau hopes to make analytic geometry and string theory accessible to a wider audience with his new book, “The Shape of Inner Space,” which he co-wrote with science author Steven J. Nadis.

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