The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Dana Scott, the Hillman University Professor of Computer Science, Philosophy and Mathematical Logic (Emeritus), has received the 2025 K. Jon Barwise Prize from the American Philosophical Association.

Princeton graduate alumnus Avi Wigderson has won the 2023 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), recognizing his profound contributions to the mathematical underpinnings ...