Who got Einstein's office? : eccentricity and genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
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Who got Einstein's office? : eccentricity and genius at the Institute for Advanced Study
Addison-Wesley, c1987
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 295-305
Includes index
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: hbk ISBN 9780201120653
Description
The story of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey--home for geniuses and great thinkers of the 20th century. Ed Regis explores the past of this "intellectual hotel" that has played host to 14 Nobel Prize winners.
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: pbk ISBN 9780201122787
Description
It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Goedel 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.
Table of Contents
- * Prologue
- The Platonic Heaven The Priest of the Cosmos * The Pope of Physics * The Grand High Exalted Mystical Ruler * Behold the Forms Heretics * Good Time Johnny * The Nim-Nim-Nim Man Extremes of Vision * Hubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble * Carrying the Fire * The Truth About Things Life, the Universe, and Everything * Natures Own Software * Beyond the Invisible Epilogue * Babes in Toyland
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