Sam Raskin, James E. English Professor of Mathematics, was awarded a 2025 New Horizons in Mathematics prize from the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. Six Yale physicists were also honored for their work on international scientific experiments.

Schotland, who has made ground-breaking contributions to applied mathematics, joined the Yale faculty in 2020 and holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Physics.

Brock, an internationally recognized mathematician who joined the Yale faculty in 2018, is also dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science.

Yale’s Sam Raskin has solved a major portion of a math question that could lead to a translation theory for some areas of math.

Yale computer science, statistics and data science, and mathematics professor Daniel Spielman helped solve a problem that had vexed mathematicians for decades.

In both 2020 and 2021, the Abel Prize — considered by many the Nobel Prize of math — was awarded to a Yale-affiliated mathematician.

Ronald Raphael Coifman, who made fundamental contributions to pure mathematics, has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Mathematics, effective April 17.

Wilhelm Schlag has been appointed the Phillips Professor of Mathematics, effective April 17.

Hungarian mathematician László Lovász, who was a Yale faculty member from 1993 to 1999, is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2021 Abel Prize in mathematics.

Hungarian mathematician László Lovász, who was a Yale faculty member from 1993 to 1999, is a co-recipient of the prestigious 2021 Abel Prize in mathematics.