The Institute for Advanced Study is a private academic institution located in [[Princeton, New Jersey]]. Contrary to the perception of the public and many students, the Institute has no connection with [[Princeton University]]. Instead, it was funded in 1930 by philanthropists Louis Bamberger and his sister Caroline Bamberger Fuld.
The Institute has a permanent faculty of 27 scholars and 190 visiting members. But often the permanent scholars are spending the later years of their lives after having established a reputation somewhere else, such as [[Albert Einstein]] and [[Kurt Godel]].
It is difficult to identify any academic achievement arising from the Institute itself.