Joseph Kohn

Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University

Joseph Kohn was born in Prague, on May 18, 1932. He emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 and to the US in 1945.  There, he received his BS at MIT 1953,  and his Ph.D. at Princeton, in 1956.
He served as a Professor at Brandeis University 1958-1968 and at Princeton since 1968.
Professor Kohn’s research regards the Theory of Several Complex Variables, Partial Differential Equations, and related fields.
He has enjoyed the honor of being a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member United States National Academy of Sciences.  He has received the American Mathematical Society Steele and Bergmann prizes, and the Bolzano prize of the Czechoslovak Union of Mathematicians and Physicists.  He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bologna, and a title in the Brooklyn Technical High School Hall of Fame.

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Saturday, September 20, 2014
2:30-4:30pm

Knowledge and Limitations

What do we know about the universe and how do we know it? As John Locke would ask, what are the extent and limitations of human knowledge? Is our understanding of the laws of nature bound by limits on what the mind can grasp, or can formulate linguistically, or are there inherent limitations of physical... read more! »

Saturday, September 20, 2014
2:30-4:30pm

Knowledge and Limitations

What do we know about the universe and how do we know it? As John Locke would ask, what are the extent and limitations of human knowledge? Is our understanding of the laws of nature bound by limits on what the mind can grasp, or can formulate linguistically, or are there inherent limitations of physical... read more! »
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The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality;  The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The... read more! »

Through 2015

Science and the Big Questions: Roundtable Series on the Physical and Spiritual World, the Brain-Mind Connection, and Human Development and Genetics

The Helix Center is pleased to announce receipt of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation in support of a series of fourteen roundtables addressing big questions in the physical, natural, and biological sciences and the humanities. The topics are: Knowledge and Limitations; The Span of Infinity; Complexity and Emergence; The Search for Immortality;  The Sublime Experience; The Meditative State; The... read more! »
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Saturday, May 12th, 2018, 2:30pm-4:30pm

The Completeness of Physics

Science can stake its claim to truth on the evidence of its empirical success accounting for reality. Does it therefore follow, necessarily, that science can lay claim to its universality? Does reality cohere in such a way that we are ultimately seeking a reductionistic account of it in toto, as some would argue is promised... read more! »

Saturday, May 12th, 2018, 2:30pm-4:30pm

The Completeness of Physics

Science can stake its claim to truth on the evidence of its empirical success accounting for reality. Does it therefore follow, necessarily, that science can lay claim to its universality? Does reality cohere in such a way that we are ultimately seeking a reductionistic account of it in toto, as some would argue is promised... read more! »
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