Dennis P. Sullivan, professor of mathematics at Stony Brook University and the City University of New York Graduate Center, won this year’s Abel Prize, the equivalent of the Nobel in mathematics. In a quote from the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, the organization that manages Abel, Dr. He said Sullivan was honored “for his […]
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Shirley McBay, Pioneer Mathematician, Dies at 86
This result reportPublished in 1990, he came to a conclusion that many people already knew: that the education pipeline has deteriorated and that improving Black enrollment requires a wholesale rethinking of education from kindergarten to grade 12. Dr. “Education opportunities, and therefore educational attainment, for many minority youth lag behind the chances, choices and performance […]
