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Shing-Tung Yau—who is the Graustein professor of mathematics and a winner of the 1982 Fields Medal, often considered the math equivalent of a Nobel Prize—is demanding an apology and retraction from the magazine for its Aug. 28 article, “Manifold Destiny,” penned by Columbia University journalism professor Sylvia Nasar and Rutgers University graduate student David Gruber...
...situation was far from unusual. For much of the 20th century, administrators used the “Graustein formula,” a complicated series of charts, to determine when Harvard departments could make permanent appointments. If a junior faculty member’s term was going to end in a year when the formula didn’t allow a permanent appointment to be made in his field, he was out of luck...
Bott, who was Graustein professor of mathematics emeritus, first joined Harvard as a professor in 1959 and stayed in his position until...
...extremely strong analytical skill in partial differential equations and mathematical physics,” said Shing-Tung Yau, Graustein professor of mathematics. “We need to strengthen this area, and he fit in very well...
...Shing-Tung Yau, William Casper Graustein Professor of Mathematics...