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In ___MASK59___ , a gauge theory is a type of field theory in which the Lagrangian is invariant under a continuous group of local transformations . Louis Bamberger ( 15 May 1855  11 March 1944 ) was Newark , New Jersey ' s leading citizen from the early 1900s until his death in 1944 . He is noted for co - founding ( with his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld ) the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , New Jersey . He was a businessman and ___MASK88___ and at his death all flags in Newark were flown at half - staff for three days , and his large department store closed for a day . Princeton University is a private Ivy League ___MASK53___ university in Princeton , New Jersey , United States . Kurt Friedrich Gödel ( April 28 , 1906  January 14 , 1978 ) was an Austrian , and later American , ___MASK65___ , ___MASK26___ , and philosopher . Considered along with Aristotle and Gottlob Frege to be one of the most significant logicians in history , Gödel made an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century , a time when others such as Bertrand Russell , A . N . Whitehead , and David Hilbert were analyzing the use of logic and set theory to understand the foundations of mathematics pioneered by Georg Cantor . Rutgers , The State University of New Jersey , commonly referred to as ___MASK7___ , Rutgers , or RU , is an American public research university and the largest institution for higher education in New Jersey . The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are Brown University , Columbia University , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of ___MASK21___ excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . Abraham Flexner ( November 13 , 1866  September 21 , 1959 ) was an American ___MASK56___ , best known for his role in the 20th century reform of medical and higher education in the United States and ___MASK80___ . ___MASK59___ ( from , from " phúsis " " nature ") is the natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion and behavior through space and time , along with related concepts such as energy and force . One of the most fundamental scientific disciplines , the main goal of ___MASK59___ is to understand how the universe behaves . Katrin Wehrheim ( born 1974 ) is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the UC Berkeley Mathematics Department . Her ___MASK53___ centers around symplectic topology and gauge theory . She is well known for her work on pseudoholomorphic quilts . She attended graduate school at ETH Zürich ; her PhD thesis in mathematics won the ETH medal in 2002 . She was an instructor at Princeton University and member of the Institute for Advanced Study before taking a tenure track position at MIT . In 2010 she received the Presidential Career Award PECASE from Barack Obama in a ceremony at the White House . In 2012 she became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society . John von Neumann (; December 28 , 1903  February 8 , 1957 ) was a Hungarian - American ___MASK26___ , physicist , inventor , computer scientist , and polymath . He made major contributions to a number of fields , including mathematics ( foundations of mathematics , functional analysis , ergodic theory , geometry , topology , and numerical analysis ), physics ( quantum mechanics , hydrodynamics , and quantum statistical mechanics ), economics ( game theory ), computing ( Von Neumann architecture , linear programming , self - replicating machines , stochastic computing ), and statistics . Albert Einstein ( 14 March 1879  18 April 1955 ) was a German - born theoretical ___MASK63___ . He developed the ___MASK20___ theory of relativity , one of the two pillars of modern ___MASK59___ ( alongside quantum mechanics ). Einstein ' s work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science . Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass  energy equivalence formula ( which has been dubbed " the world ' s most famous equation "). He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in ___MASK59___ for his " services to theoretical ___MASK59___ ", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect , a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory . The Institute for Advanced Study ( IAS ) in Princeton , New Jersey , in the United States , is an independent , postdoctoral ___MASK53___ center for theoretical ___MASK53___ and ___MASK79___ inquiry founded in 1930 by American ___MASK56___ Abraham Flexner , together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld . The IAS is perhaps best known as the academic home of Albert Einstein , John von Neumann and Kurt Gödel , after their immigration to the United States . Although it is close to and collaborates with Princeton University , Rutgers University , and other nearby institutions , it is not part of any university or federal agency and does not charge tuition or fees .