Geometry

The Iranian mathematician and former IAS Member Maryam Mirzakhani, who died on July 15, at the age of forty, was known to her colleagues as a virtuoso in the dynamics and geometry of complex surfaces—“science-fiction mathematics,” one admirer called it—and to her young daughter, Anahita, as something of an artist.

Equiangular lines are an elemental part of geometry. . . . Mathematicians want to know just how big those sets can get as you move past the 3-D space of our everyday experience and into higher dimensions.

Last spring a team of mathematicians found...

Richard Schoen, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics (1992–93) and Member in the School (1979–80, 1983–84), has been awarded the 2017 Wolf Prize in mathematics for his contributions to geometric analysis and the...

Richard Taylor, Robert and Luisa Fernholz Professor in the School of Mathematics, discusses individual versus collaborative problem-solving, translating between geometry and number theory, and devoting his life to proving the Langlands conjectures.

Scott Sheffield, Member in the School of Mathematics, and his collaborator Jason Miller have uncovered deep connections among different types of random objects.

The Program for Women and Mathematics will celebrate its twenty-third year by bringing together research mathematicians and undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral women studying mathematics for an intensive residential mentoring experience. The...