This lecture by Enrico Bombieri, IBM von
Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, explores how
mathematics has arrived at its present pragmatic view of infinity
and some of the counterintuitive paradoxes, as well as some of the
positive...
A Program to Mark the Centenary Year of the Birth of
Kurt Gödel was held in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute
for Advanced Study on November 17, 2006. The program, which
attracted some three-hundred people, consisted of talks aimed at a
general...
Eric Maskin,
Albert O. Hirschmann Professor, School of Social Science.
Proponents of free trade have argued that expanding global markets
should reduce income inequality in poorer countries. So far,
however, there is no compelling evidence that...
Nathan
Seiberg, Professor, School of Natural Sciences. This lecture
discusses how the Large Hadron Collider is expected to provide
further information about the standard model of particle physics,
which describes the elementary particles and the...
In this presentation, Professor Glen W. Bowersock discusses the
emergence and interrelated fates of Rome, Constantinople, and
Moscow. Rome became the capital of a great Mediterranean empire,
which tried through myth and mystique to reconcile its...
