This lecture by Enrico Bombieri, IBM von
Neumann Professor in the School of Mathematics, explores how
mathematics has arrived at its present pragmatic view of infinity
and some of the counterintuitive paradoxes, as well as some of the
positive...
A Program to Mark the Centenary Year of the Birth of
Kurt Gödel was held in Wolfensohn Hall at the Institute
for Advanced Study on November 17, 2006. The program, which
attracted some three-hundred people, consisted of talks aimed at a
general...
