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...
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...
