American Institute of Mathematics clones Alhambra
Sunday, August 27th, 2006I see via Peter Woit that the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM), an independent mathematics research institute in Silicon Valley, is going to get a permanent in the form of a new $50 million dollar building modeled after Alhambra, a medieval Moorish castle in Grenada, Spain. AIM was cofounded by John Fry, the chief executive of Fry’s Electronics. (If you’ve never shopped at Fry’s, it’s like Home Depot for computers. They display computer parts the way a hardware store displays nails.)