A $2 million donation from Eric and Wendy Schmidt will support
the launch of the Program in Theoretical Machine Learning in the
Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics. Eric Schmidt
is the Executive Chairman of Google; Wendy Schmidt is...
John Ewing, President of Math for America, writes in the
Huffington Post:
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge was recently
republished along with a companion essay, The World of
Tomorrow by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the current director of the
Institute...
“Perhaps the biggest fact of the last three hundred years of
history is that life expectancy tripled in the West and in many
other parts of the world. But it's not connected to one discovery
or one battle being fought—it is a tremendous driver and...
Robbert Dijkgraaf, Institute
Director and Leon Levy Professor, discusses the complex
relationship between mathematics and physics with Brady Haran of
Numberphile during the 2017 National Math Festival in Washington,
D.C. Dijkgraaf examines the...
It's not only about sharing the products of science, but
also the values of science—thinking longterm, thinking about both
facts and the uncertainties, thinking in terms of reason. . . . If
you think about the Space Race, it was wonderful to put
a...
If you look back at history, you see that large
transformations in society, the really immense breakthroughs, they
always came as a second order of fact—they were the spin-offs of
fundamental enquiry, very deep thinking, which can only happen if
you...
What is the best use of scientists’ time, energy, and grant
funding? Should researchers investigate the fundamental nature of
the universe…or cure cancer? Or is there a way to ensure that we
can do both, even if financial support is harder to get?
Einstein was a true genius and it’s the example that we all
aspire to be as a scientist. But already as a child he had a very
original way of thinking. So from the very beginning, for Einstein,
his imagination was crucial.
