Bell Labs, Nokia
100 Years Of Deep Research in Mathematics
Mathematics is alive and well at Bell Labs, 102 years since the first research mathematician was hired at AT&T’s Development & Research, West St, New York. There is an extraordinary level of consistency in what math researchers have been doing in over 100 years at Bell Labs, one that demands an unusual level of competency in both vision and research management: deep research, often as part of a team, while focused on what ultimately matters to the communication and information sciences and technologies. This is the common thread across decades of math research at Bell Labs, and still alive and well.