Peter Sarnak,
Professor, School of Mathematics. Through the works of Fermat,
Gauss, and Lagrange, we understand which positive integers can be
represented as sums of two, three, or four squares. Hilbert's 11th
problem, from 1900, extends this...
Peter Paret,
Professor Emeritus, School of Historical Studies. From 1933 to
1945, a culture war was waged between National-Socialism and
modernism in the arts. In this lecture, given in conjunction with a
performance by the Princeton Symphony...
Danielle Allen,
UPS Foundation Professor, School of Social Science. The political
season is upon us and so, if they were not before, our newspapers,
radios, computer screens, and televisions are now overfull with
sound-bites; and countless people...
Memorial Program in Honor of His Life & Work
January 11-12, 2008
Renowned Norwegian mathematician Atle Selberg, Professor
Emeritus in the School of Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced
Study, died in 2007 at the age of 90. Throughout a...
