Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. The institution moved to Newark in 1747, and then to the current site …

Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University.Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive building was constructed in …

John Forbes Nash Jr. (June 13, 1928 – May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations. Nash's work has provided insight into the factors that govern chance and decision-making inside complex systems found in everyday life.. His theories are widely used …

Corporate history. The Princeton Review was founded in 1981 by John Katzman, who—shortly after graduating from Princeton University—began tutoring students for the SAT from his Upper West Side apartment. A short time later, Katzman teamed up with Adam Robinson, an Oxford-trained SAT tutor who had developed a series of techniques for "cracking the system."

Princeton is a town in Johnston County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 1,194. Each May the town celebrates Princeton Community Day, a festival dedicated to promoting community involvement and town pride. ... Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press.

Princeton (originally Vermilion Forks) is a town in the Similkameen region of southern British Columbia, Canada. It lies just east of the Cascade Mountains, which continue south into Washington, Oregon and California.The Tulameen and Similkameen Rivers converge here. At the 2016 census, the population was 2,828.. Princeton centres on seven blocks of businesses …

History and team members. WordNet was first created in English only in the Cognitive Science Laboratory of Princeton University under the direction of psychology professor George Armitage Miller starting in 1985 and was later directed by Christiane Fellbaum.The project was initially funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research and later also by other U.S. government agencies …

Many institutions of higher education in the United States maintain financial endowments, sums of money that are invested in stocks, yielding returns that fund a portion of an institution's operational expenses and help ensure that it survives in perpetuity.. U.S. colleges and universities maintain some of the largest endowments in the world, and make up the strong majority of …

Charles Louis Fefferman (born April 18, 1949) is an American mathematician at Princeton University, where he is currently the Herbert E. Jones, Jr. '43 University Professor of Mathematics. He has been awarded the Fields Medal in 1978 for his contributions to mathematical analysis Early life and education. Fefferman was born ...

Universidade de Princeton (em inglês: Princeton University) é uma universidade privada de pesquisa da Ivy League em Princeton, Nova Jérsei.Fundada em 1746 em Elizabeth como Colégio de Nova Jérsei, Princeton é a quarta instituição de ensino superior mais antiga dos Estados Unidos e uma das nove faculdades coloniais fundadas antes da Revolução Americana.