Information for prospective math majors hillel furstenberg, a graduate student 58 of salomon bochner at princeton, shared the 2020 abel prize with gregory margulis. There will be a topic from more advanced or more applied number theory such as padic numbers, cryptography, and fermats last theorem. The mathematics list encompasses pure and applied mathematics. Princeton is equidistant from both new york and philadelphia, and is easy to reach by public transportation or by car. It is a strongly interdisciplinary group comprising members from six sfu units computing sciences, linguistics, mathematics, centre for systems science, education, engineering, two ubc units linguistics, computinc sciences, and from the university of victoria and aizu university in japan. Princeton university is located in the heart of princeton, new jersey. Watkins, colorado college the princeton companion to mathematics fills a vital need. Pure textbooks open textbook library center for open education.
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