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The Institute consists of a School of Historical Studies, a School of Mathematics, a School of Natural Sciences, a School of Social Science, and a newly created program in Theoretical Biology. There is a small permanent faculty for each school, supplemented by the Visiting Members who are selected for fellowships each year. One might discern a certain ideology behind such an unusual collection of disciplines, although it is probably more accurate to say that the Institute has been distinguished more by the strong personalities that have passed through it over the years than any particular "mission statement."
There are no degree programs or experimental facilities at the Institute, and research is funded by endowments, grants and gifts—it does not support itself with tuition or fees. It is not part of any educational system, however the proximity of Princeton University (three miles between its science departments and the main Institute complex) means that informal ties are close and a large number of collaborations have arisen over the years.
Research is never contracted or directed; it is left to each individual researcher to pursue their own goals.
The institute was founded in 1930 by Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld with the proceeds from their Newark department store. The founding of the institute was fraught with brushes against near-disaster; the Bamberger siblings pulled their money out of the stock market just before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and their original intent was to express their gratitude to the state of New Jersey through the founding of a dental school. It was the intervention of their friend Dr. Abraham Flexner that convinced them to put their money in the service of more abstract research.
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Stephen L. Adler , James W. Alexander, Andrew E. Z. Alföldi , Michael F. Atiyah, John N. Bahcall, Arne K. A. Beurling, Enrico Bombieri, Armand Borel, Jean BourgainJean Bourgain (born February 28, 1954, Ostende, Belgium), is a professor of mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study. He is noted as a prolific problem-solver. His work is in various areas of mathematical analysis such as the geometry of Banach spa, Glen W. Bowersock , Caroline Walker Bynum , Luis A. Caffarelli , Harold F. Cherniss , Marshall Clagett , Giles Constable , Patricia Crone , José Cutileiro , Roger F. Dashen , Pierre DelignePierre Deligne (born 3 October 1944) is a Belgian mathematician. He is known for fundamental work on the Weil conjectures, leading finally to a complete proof in 1973. He was born in Brussels. After completing a doctorate, he worked with Alexander Grothen, Nicola di Cosmo , Freeman J. DysonFreeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician. He worked as an analyst for the British Bomber Command during World War II; after the war, he moved to Princeton. In the years following the war, Dyson wa, Edward M. Earle , Albert Einstein, John H. Elliott , Clifford GeertzClifford James Geertz was born on August 23, 1926 in San Francisco. After service in the U. Navy in World War II (1943-45), Geertz studied at Antioch College receiving a B. in 1950 and at Harvard receiving his Ph. He taught or held fellowships at a number, Felix Gilbert , James F. Gilliam , Kurt GödelKurt Godel [ kurˈt godl ], ( April 28, 1906 January 14, 1978) was a logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics, whose biography lists quite a few nations, although he is usually associated with Austria. He was born in Brunn in Austria-, Hetty Goldman , Peter Goldreich , Oleg Grabar , Phillip A. Griffiths , Christian Habicht , Harish-ChandraSee Harishchandra for the character in Hindu mythology Harish-Chandra ( 11 October 1923- 16 October 1983) was an Indian mathematician, who did fundamental work in representation theory. He was born in Kanpur, India and died in Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Ernst Herzfeld , Albert O. Hirschman , Lars V. HörmanderLars Valter Hormander (born 24 January 1931) is a Swedish mathematician and one of the leading experts in partial differential equations. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1962, and the Wolf Prize in 1988. His Analysis of Linear Partial Differential Oper, Piet Hut , Jonathan Israel , Ernst H. Kantorowicz , George F. KennanGeorge Frost Kennan (born February 16, 1904) was for many years a member of the United States Foreign Service. As a foreign policy planner in the late 1940s and 1950s, he is considered to have been the "architect" of the Cold War with his call for contain, Robert P. Langlands, Irving Lavin , T. D. Lee, Elias A. Lowe , Robert D. MacPherson , Juan Maldacena, Eric S. Maskin , Jack F. Matlock, Jr. , Millard Meiss , Benjamin D. Meritt , John W. Milnor, David Mitrany , Deane Montgomery , Marston Morse, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Abraham Pais, Erwin Panofsky, Peter Paret , Tullio E. Regge , Winfield W. Riefler , Marshall N. Rosenbluth , Joan Wallach Scott , Nathan Seiberg, Atle Selberg, Kenneth M. Setton , Carl L. Siegel, Thomas Spencer , Walter W. Stewart , Bengt G. D. Strömgren, Homer A. Thompson , Kirk Varnedoe , Oswald Veblen, Vladimir Voevodsky, John Von Neumann, Heinrich Von Staden , Michael Walzer, Robert B. Warren , André Weil, Hermann Weyl, Morton White , Hassler Whitney, Avi Wigderson , Frank Wilczek, Edward Witten, Ernest Llewellyn Woodward , C. N. Yang, Shing-Tung Yau