Jean Bourgain, IBM von Neumann Professor in the School of
Mathematics, was bestowed the title of Baron by the Belgian
government in July 2015. In association with the honor, Bourgain
designed a coat of arms inscribed “In hope against hope.”
Bourgain...
Symplectic and contact structures first arose in the study of classical mechanical systems, allowing one to describe the time evolution of both simple and complex systems such as springs, planetary motion, and wave propagation. Understanding the evolution and distinguishing transformations of these systems led to the development of global invariants of symplectic and contact manifolds.
Since 1994 with the support of the National Science Foundation,
the Institute, together with Princeton University, has hosted an
intensive 11-day mentoring program for undergraduate and graduate
women in mathematics.
In 2016, the Institute celebrated the work and impact of
Jean Bourgain, IBM Von Neumann
Professor in the School of Mathematics and member of the Faculty
since 1994. Recipient of the Fields Medal and the Shaw Prize, among
numerous other awards...
Mathematics has a vital role in shaping a product’s life, from
research & development to manufacturing, and from marketing to
supply chain. In this public lecture, Institute Trustee Sandi
Peterson and Kathy Wengel, both Princeton alumnae, explore...
In 1990, Karen Uhlenbeck, 2019 Abel Prize Laureate,
Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Mathematics, and
co-founder of the Institute’s Women and Mathematics Program, became
the second woman to give a Plenary Lecture at the...
This event celebrates the work and life of Emmy Noether, one of the first
Visitors at the Institute from 1933–35. A highly prolific
mathematician who published groundbreaking papers in rarefied
fields of abstract algebra and ring theory, Noether is...
In the beginning of the twentieth century, the University of
Göttingen was one of the top research centers for mathematics in
the world. The mathematician David Hilbert was a well-established
professor there, and during the winter semester of 1924...
During a visit to the Institute in the 1970s, the mathematician
John Horton Conway, then of Cambridge, spent the ten most
interesting minutes of his life. Invited to deliver a talk to the
undergraduate math club at Princeton, Conway made his way...
My earliest mathematical memories involve my father. One is of a
walk from home to the edge of downtown Metuchen (the tiny central
Jersey town where I grew up), to a little luncheonette called The
Corner Confectionary. This wasn’t a frequent or...
