Who Got Einstein's Office? Eccentricity And Genius At The Institute For Advanced Study

by Regis, Edward

• ISBN13: 9780201122787
• ISBN10: 0201122782
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1988-01-22
• Publisher: Basic Books
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Summary

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 sciencecellular automata and superstrings.Who Got Einstein's Office?tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities.

Author Biography

Ed Regis, a frequent contributor to Omni magazine, is College Scholar at Western Maryland College. He is at work on a new book about extremely advanced science and technology.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. XV
Prologue	p. 1
The Platonic Heaven	p. 3
The Priestho of the Cosmos	p. 17
The Pope of Physics	p. 19
The Grand High Exalted Mystical Ruler	p. 43
Behold the Forms	p. 69
Heretics	p. 95
Good Time Johnny	p. 97
The Nim-Nim-Nim Man	p. 123
Extremes of Vision	p. 153
Hubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble	p. 155
Carrying the Fire	p. 183
The Truth About Things	p. 209
Life, the Universe, and Everything	p. 227
Nature's Own Software	p. 229
Beyond the Invisible	p. 255
Epilogue	p. 275
Babes in Toyland	p. 277
Appendix: Programs for the Mandelbrot Set and Cellular Automata	p. 291
Sources	p. 295
Index	p. 307
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