Institute for Advanced Study
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The Institute for Advanced Study is a center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, designed and funded by the U.S. Government, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment, locat
Abraham Flexner
Louis Bamberger
Caroline Bamberger Fuld
Oswald Veblen (c. 1915)
Kurt Gödel
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Kurt Friedrich Gödel was a logician, mathematician, cosmologist, and philosopher. Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history, Gödel profou
Institute for Advanced Study
…including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Emmy Noether, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, Michael Walzer, Clifford Geertz, Freeman Dyson and Kurt Gödel, many of whom had emigrated from Europe to the United States. It was founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists…
Gödel c. 1926
![Plaque to Gödel at 43-45 Josefstädter Straße [de], Vienna, where he discovered his incompleteness theorems](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/GoedelKurt.jpg/500px-GoedelKurt.jpg)
Plaque to Gödel at 43-45 Josefstädter Straße [de], Vienna, where he discovered his incompleteness theorems
Gödel as a student in 1925
Gravestone of Kurt and Adele Gödel in the Princeton, N.J., cemetery