The Institute for Advanced Study has appointed Veena Das and
Lorraine Daston to its Board of Trustees. Das, Krieger-Eisenhower
Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, has been
nominated by the Institute’s School of Social Science and...
“I didn’t think it was math, just something fun to do,” says
Jim Simons, Institute Trustee
and former Member in the School of Mathematics. An only child, he
was contemplative by nature and enjoyed pondering mathematical
ideas. “I think there’s a...
