The life and work of renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast Freeman Dyson, who spent most of his career at the Institute for Advanced Study, is the focus of a new book edited by American physicist and historian of science David Kaiser.
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has completed volume two of his catalogue raisonné of American painter Ellsworth Kelly. Working with the artist’s estate, Bois has produced a thorough catalogue of the artist’s paintings, sculptures, and reliefs between the years 1954 and 1958, including high-quality reproductions of the art, history of ownership and exhibition, and bibliographic notes.
Death of a Traveller: A Counter Investigation by Didier
Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social
Science, was published on July 6, 2021, by Polity:
“It is a simple story. A 37-year-old man belonging to the
Traveller community...
Kurt Gödel, a Member of the Institute Faculty in the School of
Mathematics, is the topic of the biography Journey to
the Edge of Reason by Stephen Budiansky, published by W.
W. Norton.
In conducting research for the book, Budiansky worked
closely...
The University of Washington Press has published
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a
Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel
in June 2021:
“In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small
but...