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A Community of Scholars

For more than eighty years, scholars at the Institute for Advanced Study have sought to understand the complexities of the physical world and of humanity, prompting advances in science and society. Access a listing of the Institute’s community of scholars from our founding to today and learn more about some noted figures in IAS history.

IAS Letter Articles

Enrico Bombieri, Freeman Dyson, Peter Sarnak, and Thomas Spencer explain efforts to understand a tantalizing connection, discovered at the Institute more than forty years ago, between prime numbers and random matrices. more...

Video Lectures

Didier Fassin on The Arduous Path of Refugees in the Changing Landscape of Asylum
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