Books

Discover the life and legacy of the twentieth century's foremost mathematical logician in Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, the new biography by Stephen Budiansky.

Billed as "the first major biography written for a general...

The New Yorker has featured Democracy and Truth, by Sophia Rosenfeld, Member (2014–15) in the School of Social Science, among its "Briefly Noted" book reviews for the week of May 27.

The New Yorker calls Rosenfeld's book "incisive," writing:

"Rosenfe...

Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf is a contributor to two math and science anthologies, each produced by Quanta Magazine and published by MIT Press.

The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta, edited...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, spoke with physicist and author Lisa Randall at the New York Public Library on April 10, 2018, about his new book Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright...

Kai Bird of the New York Times reviews Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson's Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018), writing:

"He knew Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Julian Schwinger and, well, just about anyone worth...

Ann Finkbeiner of Nature reviews Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018) by Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, writing:

“Dyson notices everything. He describes Americans’ friendliness...

Freeman Dyson, Professor Emeritus in the School of Natural Sciences, will recall his life story and recount many of the major advances in twentieth-century science in a discussion of his new autobiography Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through...

Professor Emeritus Freeman Dyson will speak with physicist and author Lisa Randall about his new autobiography Maker of Patterns: An Autobiography Through Letters (Liveright, 2018), at 6:30 p.m. on April 10 at the New York Public Library. The volume...

Foreign Affair's G. John Ikenberry reviews Professor Emeritus Jonathan Israel's The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848, writing, "This book’s wide-angle account of the nineteenth-century spread of revolutionary...

Joan Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, and Peter Coviello, Member in the School, will discuss how secularism has been used to justify the subordination of women at 6:00 p.m. on December 7 at Labyrinth Books.

Joan Scott's...