On a beautiful overlook near the university, a middle-aged man
is enjoying the view of the majestic Fjord. Judging from his
clothing, he is a stonemason from the quarry just below him. But
actually, he is a professor at the university who often...
In November, out of the blue, I received a letter from the
Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Nothing about the
envelope suggested that the letter inside would be important. It
was an ordinary white office envelope with Institute for...
One of the key scientific contributions of the 20th century,
Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication” created
the field of information theory in 1948. In addition to the impact
of information theory on communications technology...
Differential privacy disentangles learning about a dataset as a
whole from learning about an individual data contributor. Just now
entering practice on a global scale, the demand for advanced
differential privacy techniques and knowledge of basic...
In 2016, Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School
of Mathematics, celebrates his sixtieth birthday. The Institute for
Advanced Study hosted a conference in honor of this occasion from
October 5 through October 8, 2016, with scholars...
The Institute hosted the Beyond Endoscopy conference, led by
Professor Emeritus Robert P. Langlands, on September 30 and October
1, 2016. View talks from the conference below.
Explore a collection of Robert Langlands’s papers, as well as
some of his lectures and correspondence, on topics ranging from
functoriality, representation theory, and base change to endoscopy,
Shimura varieties, percolation, and geometric theory.
During the 2015-16 academic year, the School of Mathematics
hosted a program on the topic of geometric structures in three
dimensions. This article is an adaptation of a talk I gave in fall
2015, as part of the School's biweekly "Mathematical...
“This therefore, is mathematics: she reminds you of the
invisible forms of the soul; she gives light to her own
discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she
brings light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes oblivion
and...
Edward Nelson, Member in the Schools of Mathematics (1956–59,
79–80) and Natural Sciences (1963–64, 67–68, 73–74) and Professor
of Mathematics at Princeton University until his death in 2014, was
an original thinker best known for successfully...
