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Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

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After three tumultuous years, President Michael Schill would be “stepping down,” we learned in early September. Interim President Henry Bienen, previously NU president from 1995 to 2009, left ...