Hee Oh joined Yale’s math department this year from Brown. Here she talks about absolute abstraction, the joy of walking — and missing math during her years as a social activist.Hee OhYou received your doctorate in mathematics from Yale in 1997, then...
A familiar name keeps popping up in media reports about the Japanese economy: Koichi Hamada.Koichi HamadaThe name is familiar in New Haven, because Hamada taught at Yale from 1986 to 2013 and is now Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics; he keeps an...
A Yale-NUS College faculty committee has issued a detailed account of the new school’s approach to 21st-century liberal arts education, chronicling the evolution of a novel curriculum and offering an insider’s view of a major undertaking in global higher...
In awarding Yale’s George Daniel Mostow its 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics — one of the field’s premier global awards — the foundation offered this crisp assessment: “Few mathematicians,” it said, “can compete with the breadth, depth, and...