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A Community of Scholars: Impressions of the Institute for Advanced Study

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This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry on the Institute for Advanced Study, some of the world’s leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members in conjunction with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity, freedom, and comradeship that may be a hallmark of this unique community of scholars.

Founded in 1930 in Princeton, New Jersey, the institute encourages and supports fundamental research in the sciences and humanities–the original, frequently speculative thinking that may change into how we bear in mind our world. Albert Einstein was once a number of the first in a long line of brilliant thinkers to be affiliated with the institute. They include Kurt Gödel, George Kennan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, John von Neumann, and Hermann Weyl. This volume offers an intimate portrait in words and images of a storied institution that might best be described as a true academic village. The personal reflections collected here–written by leading figures from across the disciplines–bring this exceptional academic institution and its history vibrantly to life.

The contributors to this anthology are Michael Atiyah, Chantal David, Freeman Dyson, Jane F. Fulcher, Peter Goddard, Barbara Kowalzig, Wolf Lepenies, Paul Moravec, Joan Wallach Scott, and David H. Weinberg.

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