Who founded an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry, that had a Swiss mathematician as a permanent professor ?
Institute for Advanced Study The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent, postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry founded in 1930 by American educator Abraham Flexner, together with philanthropists Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld.
Beno Eckmann Beno Eckmann (31 March 1917 – 25 November 2008 in Zurich) was a Swiss mathematician who was a student of Heinz Hopf.