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A passion for discovery

Author: Peter G O Freund
Publisher: New Jersey : World Scientific, 2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"This book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century - on scientists' behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Anecdotes
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Peter G O Freund
ISBN: 9789812706461 9812706461 9812772146 9789812772145
OCLC Number: 154672019
Description: xvi, 221 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 1 Einstein Once Removed 1 --
2 Heisenberg's Turn 7 --
3 A True Aristocrat 14 --
4 The Conscience of Physics 20 --
5 The Wizard of Pasadena 26 --
6 Back to Maupertuis 32 --
7 The Language of God 37 --
8 Emmy Noether and the Urge for the Abstract 43 --
9 Oswald Teichmuller and Nazi Science 51 --
10 Spontaneous Breakdown of Human Decency 58 --
11 Scientists in Politics 61 --
12 Jews in Science. The Backlash 69 --
13 Stalin and the Quantum 77 --
14 Mister Sakharov Goes to Kiev 82 --
15 Mr. Yang also Goes to Kiev 87 --
16 The Stone Age and the Fermi Era 94 --
17 The Serene Sensei 99 --
18 Oppenheimer, Hero or Antihero? 105 --
19 Viennese Physics, Then and Now 110 --
20 The Importance of a Sense of Humor 123 --
21 The Russian Style 129 --
22 Chandra, Passionate Cambridge Gentleman 134 --
23 On and Off the Map: Romanian Mathematics 143 --
24 Du cote de chez Telegdi, the Experimental Side 151 --
25 Leader of the Pack 160 --
26 New Dimensions 165 --
27 A Brief History of Space 173 --
28 The Coming Age 182 --
Epilogue: The Goal and the Means 184 --
Sources, Comments and Some More Stories Masquerading as Comments 192.
Responsibility: Peter Freund.

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Assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. This work features stories that cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the  Read more...

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"Like the author, these stories are full of wisdom, wit and humor. Sometimes they are hilarious and sometimes tragic. They need to be told, and I suspect that Peter Freund is the only one who can Read more...

 
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