MIT Department of Mathematics

Short description: Academic department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Department of Mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (also known as Course 18) is one of the premier mathematics departments both in the U.S. and the world.[1][2] In the 2023 U.S. News & World Report rankings of the U.S. graduate programs for mathematics, MIT's program is ranked in the first place, tied only with that of Princeton University, and thereafter it is a three-way tie between Harvard University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley.[3]

The current faculty of around 50 members includes Wolf Prize winner Michael Artin, Shaw Prize winner George Lusztig, Gödel Prize winner Peter Shor, and numerical analyst Gilbert Strang.

## History

Originally under John Daniel Runkle, mathematics at MIT was regarded as service teaching for engineers.[4] Harry W Tyler succeeded Runkle after his death in 1902, and continued as its head until 1930. Tyler had been exposed to modern European mathematics and was influenced by Felix Klein and Max Noether.[5] Much of the early work was on geometry.

Norbert Wiener, famous for his contribution to the mathematics of signal processing, joined the MIT faculty in 1919. By 1920, the department started publishing the Journal of Mathematics and Physics (in 1969 renamed as Studies in Applied Mathematics), a sign of its growing confidence; the first PhD was conferred to James E Taylor in 1925.

Among illustrious members of the faculty were Norman Levinson and Gian-Carlo Rota. George B. Thomas wrote the widely used calculus textbook Calculus and Analytical Geometry, known today as Thomas' Calculus. Longtime faculty member Arthur Mattuck received several awards for his teaching of MIT undergraduates.

## References

* Joel Segel (editor) (2009) Recountings - Conversations with MIT Mathematicians, AK Peters ISBN 978-1-4398-6541-5

1. ↑ "Vital Statistics on the Numbers Game". http://www.sciencewatch.com/may-june2002/sw_may-june2002_page2.htm. , Vital Statistics on the Numbers Game,Science Watch, May 2002. Archived at "Vital Statistics on the Numbers Game". http://archive.sciencewatch.com/may-june2002/sw_may-june2002_page2.htm.
2. ↑ "MIT is second in the US on number of Math PhDs". http://math.scu.edu/~eschaefe/grad.html.
3. ↑ "Mathematics Rankings". https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/mathematics-rankings.
4. ↑ Peter L. Duren, Richard Askey, Uta C. Merzbac, A Century of Mathematics in America, 1989,American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-0124-4
5. ↑ Parshall, Karen; Rowe, David E. (1994). The Emergence of the American Mathematical Research Community 1876–1900: J. J. Sylvester, Felix Klein, and E. H. Moore. AMS/LMS History of Mathematics 8. Providence/London. pp. 229–230. ISBN 9780821809075. https://books.google.com/books?id=uMvcfEYr6tsC&pg=PA229.

## External links

* MIT Mathematics Department website
* MIT OpenCourseWare: Mathematics

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