Books

Avi Wigderson, Herbert H. Maass Professor in the School of Mathematics, has authored Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (Princeton University Press, 2019).

The book serves as an introduction to computational...

New York Review Books Classics has reprinted Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics by Michael Walzer, Professor Emeritus in the School of Social Science. Originally published in 1971, the new edition features an introduction by...

Didier Fassin, James D. Wolfensohn Professor in the School of Social Science, and Bernard E. Harcourt, Visiting Professor (2016–17) in the School, have edited A Time for Critique (Columbia University Press, 2019).

The book calls for a systematic...

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has coauthored, with Camilla Adang, Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies (Lockwood Press, 2019).

The articles brought together in this volume deal with...

In How We Read: Tales, Fury, Nothing, Sound (Punctum Books, 2019), a new book coedited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, contributors explore reading as a passive, active, and even embodied act of consumption...

Joan Wallach Scott, Professor Emerita in the School of Social Science, has authored Knowledge, Power, and Academic Freedom (Columbia University Press, 2019).

The book presents essays that explore the history and theory of free inquiry and its value...

Francesca Trivellato, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, examines how an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism in The Promise and Peril of Credit: What a...

Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf’s “Quantum Questions Inspire New Math,” published by Quanta Magazine, has been selected for inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2018 (Princeton University Press).

"To Solve the Biggest Mystery in Physics, Join Two Kinds of Law," a column for Quanta Magazine by Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf, features in Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta...

"Quantum Questions Inspire New Math," a column for Quanta Magazine by Institute Director and Leon Levy Professor Robbert Dijkgraaf, features in The Prime Number Conspiracy: The Biggest Ideas in Math from Quanta (MIT Press, 2018).

This anthology...