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Bezig met laden... Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study (editie 1988)door Ed Regis (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkWie zit er op Einsteins stoel ? over genieën en zonderlingen in een ivoren toren door Ed Regis
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Entertaining, and a good snapshot of personalities and activities at a particular time. ( ) The dated nature of the science in this book made for a fascinating snapshot of the time at which I was starting to pay attention to what was going on in the wider world of mathematics, and for that I greatly appreciated it. The book recognises that its subjects are not perfect, and that at best it is scraping the surface of what it could be discussing. Each chapter foregrounds an individual from the Institute, which worked well to give a feel for how things were, without being entirely tedious. The writing flows, the subject matter is interesting, the individuals range from infuriating to fascinating, and it was worth reading. I had originally intended to pass this one on after reading, but I think I'm going to keep it, because the discussion about what was going on with some of the researchers and their special topics at the time (Mandelbrot, Wolfram come to mind, but there was at least one other) I may well want to revisit. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Göedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Director's mansion. It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century science--cellular automata and superstrings.Who Got Einstein's Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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