Princeton University Department of Mathematics

Princeton University Department of Mathematics
Fine Hall, home to the Department of Mathematics
TypePrivate
Established1760
Parent institution
Princeton University
DeanDavid Gabai
Academic staff
101 faculty members and researchers (2018–2019)[1]
Students70 undergraduate students 78 graduate students (2018–2019)[2]
Location, ,
United States
Websitemath.princeton.edu

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.[3][4] Notable individuals affiliated with the department include John Nash, former faculty member and winner of the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences; Alan Turing, who received his doctorate from the department; and Albert Einstein who frequently gave lectures at Princeton and had an office in the building.[5][6] Fields Medalists associated with the department include Manjul Bhargava, Charles Fefferman, Gerd Faltings, Michael Freedman, Elon Lindenstrauss, Andrei Okounkov, Terence Tao, William Thurston, Akshay Venkatesh, and Edward Witten (who began graduate study in the mathematics department before transferring to the physics department). Many other Princeton mathematicians are noteworthy, including Ralph Fox, Donald C. Spencer, John R. Stallings, Norman Steenrod, John Tate, John Tukey, Arthur Wightman, and Andrew Wiles.

Since 2012, the chair of the department has been David Gabai, who was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry in 2004 and was elected into the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2011.

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  2. ^ "Students". Princeton University Department of Mathematics.
  3. ^ Barany, Michael (2018). "The Fields Medal should return to its roots". Nature. 553 (7688): 271–273. Bibcode:2018Natur.553..271B. doi:10.1038/d41586-018-00513-8.
  4. ^ "Kollár receives 2017 Shaw Prize in mathematics". Princeton University.
  5. ^ "Einstein's legacy". Princeton University.
  6. ^ "ALBERT EINSTEIN'S YEARS IN PRINCETON (USA)". Einstein. Archived from the original on 2017-09-09. Retrieved 2018-09-08.