Math Fans Join Live Sendoff for Gil Strang
This past Monday, revered mathematics professor Gilbert Strang capped a 61-year career as a faculty member at MIT by delivering his final lecture before retiring at the age of 88….
Continue readingThis past Monday, revered mathematics professor Gilbert Strang capped a 61-year career as a faculty member at MIT by delivering his final lecture before retiring at the age of 88….
Continue readingBy Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant It was a great pleasure to learn that MIT’s Math Department has named Paige Dote as one of five…
Continue readingBy Cheryl Siegel, Publication Manager/Social Media Coordinator & Yvonne Ng, Annual Giving & Donor Relations Officer Falling in love. Maybe it’s sudden. Or maybe it’s a slow burn that ignites…
Continue readingBy Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant We’re saddened to hear of the death of our friend Herb Gross, who passed away on May 27th at the age…
Continue reading“My life is in teaching,” says one of MIT’s most revered professors. “To have a chance to do that with a world audience is just wonderful.” By MIT OpenCourseWare MIT…
Continue readingBy Peter Chipman, OCW Digital Publication Specialist and OCW Educator Assistant Today we’re delighted to wish a very happy birthday to Professor Herb Gross, who is turning 90. When he…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Airliners crisscrossing the globe, rockets hurtling into space, satellites orbiting distant planets—it’s where the fantastic meets the familiar—it’s aerospace! It’s where dreams of soaring…
Continue readingMove…accelerate…reach the peak…bottom out…transform… So many ways to look at change, to talk about change. Change is inescapable. And change can be scary, especially when you don’t understand what’s happening….
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director If you’re interested in computer programming, you might be familiar with OCW’s extensive resources in the discipline, ranging from our introductory classes to the…
Continue readingAt this Friday’s MIT commencement, the featured speaker is Matt Damon: actor, filmmaker, co-founder of Water.org, and Cambridge MA native. In Good Will Hunting, Mr. Damon played an unrecognized math-genius janitor at MIT; and…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Among OCW’s most popular courses are 18.06SC Linear Algebra and 18.03SC Differential Equations. They are regulars on OCW’s most visited courses list. OCW has…
Continue readingPhoto by Andrés Monroy-Hernández on Flickr, license CC BY-SA. By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Two MIT mathematics professors have designed a new online series of short introductory calculus courses…
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