King Charles XVI Gustav presented the Swedish Society for
Anthropology and Geography (SSAG) Gold Medal to Didier Fassin,
James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, for
his scientific contributions to anthropology.
The story of how and why the universe began is written in the
sky. Cosmologists believe that details of the Big Bang are encoded
in triangles and other shapes that appear in the distribution of
galaxies. Lately, they’ve made significant progress in...
Frequent Director's Visitor Siobhan Roberts considers errors in
mathematics with Professor Vladimir Voevodsky, discussing how his
experience confirming a mistake within his own influential proof
led him to employ a “proof assistant”—a computer...