On getting to know the work of David Nirenberg

TO: David Nirenberg, Director, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ
FM: Bruce E. Camber
RE: Your books: Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton University Press, 1996); Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition (W.W. Norton, 2013), and most recently co-authored with his father, Ricardo Nirenberg, Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (University of Chicago Press, 2021); and your personal homepage and your homepages within IAS (even your CV-PDF) and within Chicago, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Haifa-PDF, and Wikipedia

This page: https://81018.com/nirenberg/

Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Dear Prof. Dr. David Nirenberg, 

Another email: Sunday, March 5, 2023 at 9:30 AM

Dear Prof. Dr. David Nirenberg, 

I think the world would enjoy knowing how IAS will celebrate Pi Day on March 14 (2023).

Pi Day 2009 was recognized as a national holiday in the USA. Then, in November 2019 UNESCO adopted Pi Day as the International Day of Mathematics.*

So, with this note, I wish you a very special Pi Day: https://81018.com/pointing/ I believe it begins to cut a new pathway of understanding for dialogue between religions, and then between science and religion.

Best wishes for your every success,
Bruce

*Whatever mathematical equation gets this kind of attention? -BEC

First email: Jun 29, 2022, 6:14 PM

Dear Prof. Dr. David Nirenberg:

What is common to all religions and all sciences? That was the question that I asked for our 1979 MIT-WCC summer conference, Faith, Science and the Human Future.* I empaneled 77 living scholars from across the academic spectrum to address Erwin Schrödinger’s question,  What is life? URL: https://81018.com/mit/

For that summer session, I developed these foundations ( https://81018.com/foundations/ ).

Most recently, I’ve found them within the infinite defined by pi. That surely is quite enough, but there is so much more. We are all so young, so naive, yet full of beans and self-assurance. Notwithstanding, IAS has always been a place whose scholars I have enjoyed: https://81018.com/ias/

I send my deepest admiration,  profound congratulations, and sincere wishes for your every success,

Bruce

*I was active with both groups and on the organizing and steering committee for the conference.  -BEC