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News directly from Cornell's colleges and centers Allen Hatcher, emeritus professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. The $5,000 prize will be presented at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle. Hatcher, a geometric topologist, will receive the award for his book, “Algebraic Topology,” published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press. “Allen Hatcher’s ‘Algebraic Topology’ has transformed the teaching of this topic with its lively mix of intuition, salient examples, and formal mathematics,” according to the prize citation.

“Its careful approach and spirit of fun has attracted many newcomers to the field.” The textbook is “a global classic…the source from which the majority of students worldwide have learned the subject in the last 25 years,” said Martin Bridson M.A. ’89, Ph.D. ’91, the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.

Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6. Using time-delay snapshots, researchers led by mathematician Yunan Yang have introduced a new way to identify the underlying dynamics of unpredictable systems, such as the atmosphere and turbulent fluids. On Saturday, September 27, Professor Laurent Saloff-Coste, the Cornell Math Department historian, will give a presentation at the Cox Centennial Celebration Sept 26-27, 2025, at Howard University. Hosted by Mat Zucker ’92, the show chronicles the joys of country living—and helps other city folk make the leap A common thread through much of my research is the idea of studying the space of all topological objects of a certain kind, for example, the space of all finite polyhedra, the space of...

Recently I have also been writing a couple of graduate-level textbooks in topology. Allen Hatcher, emeritus professor of mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition by the American Mathematical Society. The $5,000 prize will be presented at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle. Hatcher, a geometric topologist, will receive the award for his book, "Algebraic Topology," published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press. "Allen Hatcher's 'Algebraic Topology' has transformed the teaching of this topic with its lively mix of intuition, salient examples, and formal mathematics," according to the prize citation.

"Its careful approach and spirit of fun has attracted many newcomers to the field." The textbook is "a global classic…the source from which the majority of students worldwide have learned the subject in the last 25 years," said Martin Bridson M.A. '89, Ph.D. '91, the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford and the president of the Clay Mathematics Institute. Read the full story on the College of Arts and Sciences website. On Thursday, April 24th, 2025 from 5:30 AM ?

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Mark Gross, Paul Hacking, Sean Keel, Maxim Kontsevich Sophie Morier-Genoud and Valentin Ovsienko Allen Hatcher, Cornell University, will receive the inaugural Elias M. Stein Prize for Transformative Exposition for his book Algebraic Topology. Read More: https://lnkd.in/efiXRuvm Algebraic Topology is a really great textbook.

Principal at Aplus Academy of Advancement Note: I have retired from teaching and advising students but am still active in research and writing. The best way to contact me is via email. If I do not respond in a timely fashion it is because I have nothing useful or definite to say. Book Projects Algebraic Topology This book, published in 2002, is a beginning graduate-level textbook on algebraic topology from a fairly classical point of view. To find out more or to download it in electronic form, follow this link to the download page.

Vector Bundles and K-Theory This unfinished book is intended to be a fairly short introduction to topological K-theory, starting with the necessary background material on vector bundles and including also basic material on characteristic... For further information or to download the part of the book that is written, go to the download page. Spectral Sequences I have now returned to an earlier plan of having this material be an extra chapter of the Algebraic Topology book, rather than a separate book. The current version of this chapter is here. Its main focus is the Serre spectral sequence and its applications, but there is also some coverage of the Adams spectral sequence and, more briefly, a few other spectral sequences. In case you would like to see the older version that was planned as a separate book, this can be found on this page.

Topology of Numbers This is an undergraduate-level introduction to elementary number theory from a somewhat geometric point of view, focusing on quadratic forms in two variables with integer coefficients. See the webpage for the book for more information or to download an electronic version of the book. A print version has been published by the American Math Society in 2022, but the electronic version will remain freely available here. This book, published in 2002, is a beginning graduate-level textbook on algebraic topology from a fairly classical point of view. To find out more or to download it in electronic form, follow this link to the download page. This unfinished book is intended to be a fairly short introduction to topological K-theory, starting with the necessary background material on vector bundles and including also basic material on characteristic classes.

For further information or to download the part of the book that is written, go to the download page. I have now returned to an earlier plan of having this material be an extra chapter of the Algebraic Topology book, rather than a separate book. The current version of this chapter is here. Its main focus is the Serre spectral sequence and its applications, but there is also some coverage of the Adams spectral sequence and, more briefly, a few other spectral sequences. In case you would like to see the older version that was planned as a separate book, this can be found on this page.

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