Emmy Murphy is a past Member and Visitor in the School of Mathematics, serving as a von Neumann fellow in 2019–20. In this Quanta interview, Murphy discusses geometric spaces and the spaces inhabited by mathematicians, as well as the inspiration that she draws from her namesake, past IAS Visitor Emmy Noether.
Emmy Murphy, Visitor and recent von
Neumann Fellow in the School of Mathematics, has been awarded the
MCA Prize by the Mathematical Council of the Americas.
Watch Murphy's citation, given by Helmut Hofer, Hermann Weyl Professor in the
School, in...