Via revealing photos and accompanying textual content, this publication bargains a fascinating and lovely glimpse into the interior lifetime of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques (IHES). The IHES in France is an institute of complex learn in arithmetic and theoretical physics with an curiosity in epistemology and the background of technology. It offers really proficient scientists with a spot the place they could dedicate themselves solely to their learn, freed from instructing and administrative constraints, and gives them the chance to ask viewers with whom they need to paintings.
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