Mathematics

Four science writers, including frequent Director's Visitor Siobhan Roberts, explain how the impasse in math and science instruction runs deeper than test scores or the latest educational theory. What can we learn from the best teachers on the front...

Sergio Verdú, Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, will a deliver a public lecture, “Claude E. Shannon,” on Wednesday, November 16, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus...

Ingrid Daubechies, former Member (1999) in the School of Mathematics, shows how new mathematical techniques can be used to revitalize a 650-year-old work of art.

Some of history's greatest mathematicians have been blind. How did they visualize space?

Today is Richard Guy’s 100th birthday—a mathematician quite unlike any other. Siobhan Roberts, Director’s Visitor, highlights Guy's friendship with mathematician Paul Erdös and the inspiration he provided for one of Guy's most famous books, Unsolved...

Subhash Khot, Silver Professor of Computer Science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and former Member (2003–04) in the School of Mathematics, has been named a 2016 Fellow of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, discusses math, war, the human brain, the education system, and the Orion Project in an interview with Business Insider. Read more http://ow.ly/mI6i3044d4h.

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.

When John Nash, Member in the School of Mathematics on several occasions, was killed in a car accident in May 2015, he was in the final stages of coediting a book on unsolved mathematical problems with Michael Th. Rassias, Visitor in the Program in...

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