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The Princeton University Department of Mathematics is an academic department at Princeton University.Founded in 1760, the department has trained some of the world's most renowned and internationally recognized scholars of mathematics.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics is a book providing an extensive overview of mathematics that was published in 2008 by Princeton University Press.Edited by Timothy Gowers with associate editors June Barrow-Green and Imre Leader, it has been noted for the high caliber of its contributors.
The Princeton Lectures in Analysis is a series of four mathematics textbooks, each covering a different area of mathematical analysis.They were written by Elias M. Stein and Rami Shakarchi and published by Princeton University Press between 2003 and 2011.
At Princeton in the 1970s, Nash became known as "The Phantom of Fine Hall" [87] (Princeton's mathematics center), a shadowy figure who would scribble arcane equations on blackboards in the middle of the night. He is referred to in a novel set at Princeton, The Mind-Body Problem, 1983, by Rebecca Goldstein. [3]
After a stay at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1981, Wiles became a Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University. [14] In 1985–86, Wiles was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques near Paris and at the École Normale Supérieure. [14] In 1989, Wiles was elected to the Royal Society.
After positions at Harvard and University of Pennsylvania, Gabai spent most of the period of 1986–2001 at Caltech, and has been at Princeton since 2001. Gabai was the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University from 2012 to 2019. [5]
www.math.princeton.edu /people /michael-aizenman Michael Aizenman (born 28 August 1945) is an American-Israeli mathematician and a physicist at Princeton University , working in the fields of mathematical physics , statistical mechanics , functional analysis and probability theory .
Elias Menachem Stein (January 13, 1931 – December 23, 2018) was an American mathematician who was a leading figure in the field of harmonic analysis.He was the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, at Princeton University, where he was a faculty member from 1963 until his death in 2018.