Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study (Repost)
Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study By Ed Regis
1987 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0201122782 , 0201120658 | DJVU | 3 MB
1987 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0201122782 , 0201120658 | DJVU | 3 MB
Institutions, their personnel, and the projects of these individual are a fascinating subject. Regis has chosen to examine the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, defty following it and its faculty from germination to the present. He focuses on two of the four Institute schools, Mathematics and Natural Science, with little mention of the less famous schools of Historical Studies and Social Science. The scientific lives he narrates include revealing bits of personal information while concentrating on succinct and very readable explanations of their work and its relation to the larger scientific community. Topics range from transcendental numbers to cellular automata. Highly recommended.