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9780201122787

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

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  • 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

Prefacep. xiii
Acknowledgmentsp. XV
Prologuep. 1
The Platonic Heavenp. 3
The Priestho of the Cosmosp. 17
The Pope of Physicsp. 19
The Grand High Exalted Mystical Rulerp. 43
Behold the Formsp. 69
Hereticsp. 95
Good Time Johnnyp. 97
The Nim-Nim-Nim Manp. 123
Extremes of Visionp. 153
Hubble, Bubble Toil and Troublep. 155
Carrying the Firep. 183
The Truth About Thingsp. 209
Life, the Universe, and Everythingp. 227
Nature's Own Softwarep. 229
Beyond the Invisiblep. 255
Epiloguep. 275
Babes in Toylandp. 277
Appendix: Programs for the Mandelbrot Set and Cellular Automatap. 291
Sourcesp. 295
Indexp. 307
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