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The Institute for Advanced Study nual Report 1979/80 lis Annual Report has been made possible by a generous grant from the Union Carbide Corporation. The Institute for Advanced Study Annual Report for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1979 - June 30, 1980 The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, New Jersey 08540 Printed by Princeton University Press Designed by Bruce Campbell It is fundamental to our purpose, and our Extract from the letter addressed by the express desire, that in the appointments to Founders to the Institute's Trustees, the staff and faculty, as well as in the dated June 6, 1930, admission of workers and students, no Newark, New Jersey. account shall be taken, directly or indirectly, of race, religion, or sex. We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all, the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed or sex. 9;2 3f Table of Contents Trustees and Officers 9 Administration 10 The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose 11 Report of the Chairman 13 Report of the Director 15 Reports of the Schools 21 Publications of the Faculty, Professors Emeriti and Members with Long-term Appointments: A Selection 69 Record of Events, 1979-80 73 Report of the Treasurer 107 Donors 116 Founders Caroline Bamberger Fuld Louis Bamberger Board of Trustees Daniel Bell Howard C. Kauffmann Professor of Sociologi) President Harvard University Exxon Corporation Charles L. Brown John R. Opel Chairman of the Board and Chief President and Director Executive Officer IBM Corporation American Telephone and Telegraph Company Howard C. Petersen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Fletcher L. Byrom Chairman of the Board Martin E. Segal Koppers Company, Inc. Partner, Wertheim & Co.: Chairman, Martin E. Segal Company Gladys Krieble Delmas Nexv York, Neiv York Zeph Stewart Professor of Greek and Latin Harvard University J. Richardson Dilworth Princeton , New jerse}/ Donald B. Straus Joseph L. Doob President Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Research Institute of the American University of Illinois Arbitration Association Sidney D. Drell Frank E. Taplin Professor of Physics President Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Metropolitan Opera Association Michael V. Forrestal Elizabeth A. Whitehead Lawyer Greemvich, Connecticut New York, New York James D. Wolfensohn Ralph E. Hansmann General Partner NfTC York, Neio York Salomon Brothers James R. Houghton Harry Woolf Vice-Chairman and Director Director Corning Glass Works The Institute for Advanced Study Trustees Emeriti Lloyd K. Garrison Harold F. Linder Harold K. Hochschild Ira A. Schur Amory Houghton, Sr. Norton Simon Corporate Officers Howard C. Petersen Ralph E. Hansmann Gmirman Treasurer J. Richardson Dilworth Donald C. Jenkins President and Vice Chairman Assistant Treasurer John Hunt Secretary Administration Harry Woolf, Director Aida L. La Brutte, Secretary John Hunt, Associate Director and Secretary of the Corporation Judith G. Grisham, Secretary Allen I. Rowe, Associate Director for Administratiort and Finance Alison Scheffler, Secretary Mary S. Wisnovsky, Assistant to the Director Grace Rapp, Secretary James Barbour, Assistant Manager of Administration Sabina Modzelewski, Comptroller Libraries Lily B. Agar, Historical Studies Virginia C. Radway, Mathematics and Natural Sciences Pat Sherr, Social Science School of Historical Studies Elizabeth 1. Horton, School Administrative Officer School of Mathematics Caroline D. Underwood, School Administrative Officer School of Natural Sciences Valerie Nowak, School Administrative Officer School of Social Science Peggy A. Clarke, School Administrative Officer The Institute for Advanced Study: Background and Purpose I The Institute takes the following premises on the development of facilities and a mode of op- nature of learning as fundamental: most important eration designed specifically to support and work is the product of the disciplined and creative assist the Institute's intellectual purposes in individual mind; accordingly, the individual scholar every way possible. must be responsible for how he uses the precious Although the Institute is small when meas- resources of his own time and energy: the com- ured in terms of the size of its immediate ac- munity of peers in his area of intellectual imrk is ademic community or of its operating budget, the ultimate judge of the results. (From Pro- its intellectual weight is great and its influence cedures FOR Academic Governance of the on science and scholarship extraordinary. Institute.) From its earliest years, it has been interna- tionally recognized as one of the world's lead- ing centers of research. Indeed, its successful The Institute for Advanced Study, an inde- example has created numerous imitators both pendent, private institution devoted to the in the United States and abroad. encouragement, support and patronage of From the beginning the Institute has been learning, was founded in 1930 as a community an international organization, although of scholars where intellectual inquiry could American in location and organizational form. be carried out in the most favorable circum- It has operated throughout its existence on stances. Focused on mathematics and classi- the premise that science and learning tran- cal studies at the outset, the Institute today scend national boundaries and that scholars consists of the School of Historical Studies, and scientists are members of one common- the School of Mathematics, the School of Nat- wealth of the mind. Of the present Faculty, ural Sciences and the School of Social Science. many have begun their scientific and schol- Each School has a small permanent Faculty, arly careers outside the United States. One- and some 160 fellowships are awarded an- third of the visiting members come from nually to visiting members from other re- abroad, mostly from the great centers of search institutions and universities through- learning of western Europe and, to a lesser out the world. extent, from other regions of the world. The objectives of the Institute were de- With its devotion to the continuing exam- scribed as follows in the Founders' original ination of new and centrally important ques- letter to the first Trustees: "The primary pur- tions as they arise at the frontiers of knowl- pose is the pursuit of advanced learning and edge, the Institute partakes of the character exploration in the fields of pure science and of both a university and a research institute, high scholarship to the utmost degree that while differing in significant ways from both. the facilities of the institution and the ability It is unlike a university, for instance, in its of the faculty and students will permit." Dur- small size—its academic membership an- ing the past half-century, these goals have nually numbers somewhat under 200—and been implemented by a Faculty of exceptional in the fact that it has no formal curriculum, merit; by an annually renewed group of care- no scheduled courses of instruction, no com- fully selected visiting members; and by the mitment that all branches of learning be rep- 12 Background and Purpose resented in its Faculty and members. It is un- life. The choice and conduct of research and like the usual research institute in that it study are matters which are decided entireh supports many separate fields of study, main- by each individual member of the Institute tains no laboratories and determines its pro- The Institute is nonetheless an intellectual grams in terms of individual intellectual im- community and not a mere collection of schol- peratives rather than the collective aims of ars. Community is possible because Faculty research teams or the particular interests of and members have some substantial knowl- potential donors. edge outside their own fields of specializa- For close to five decades the Institute for tion. The fact that the visiting members live Advanced Study has made a substantial con- together in Institute housing, eat in the same tribution to the world of higher learning by dining hall, share the same common room providing support—intellectual and mate- and libraries, and carry out their work m an rial—to visiting members whose develop- institutional setting where human scale has ment and growth constitute one of its prin- been carefully maintained is conducive to cipal purposes. More than half of these visiting common interest, mutual understanding and members are young men and women 35 years friendship. of age or less whose work at the Institute in- The Faculty and members of the Institute volves the Faculty in a substantial amount of are also a part of the larger community of postdoctoral training. Though none of the Princeton, with its University and its many visiting members is a student in the narrow institutions of research and learning. Manyi sense of being a degree candidate, educa- Institute seminars are open to interestedl tional growth lies ahead. members of the University's faculty and grad-i The Institute devotes special attention to uate school, and University seminars and young people of accomplishment and prom- conferences are frequently attended by Insti- ise, and offers them membership at a stage tute Faculty and members. Without the Uni- in their careers when independent work is of versity, Princeton itself would be both ph\s- the highest importance to their intellectual ically and intellectually inadequate as the site development. These younger members then of the Institute; and the Institute has brought; return to or join the faculties of universities a degree of international excellence to thei all over the world and share what they have general academic community of Princeton,! learned as a result of their stay at the Institute. contributing to the development of what has This might be termed the invisible work of become one of the world's great educational the Institute; its visible work is contained in centers. the publications of the Faculty and visiting The Institute today occupies a square milei members.
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