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John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)
"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camouflage"
Jan 17
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Jørgen Veisdal
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John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)
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The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)
“Just as the cubists had an inability to paint decently, so, here lies together the audacity and the inability the theoretical physicists want to impose…
Jan 6
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Origins of Deutsche Physik (1910s)
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November 2024
The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)
“Where they burn books, they will also burn people” — Heinrich Heine
Nov 15, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Battle Line at Louvain (1914)
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Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50)
"The entire edifice of game theory rests on two theorems: von Neumann’s min-max theorem of 1928 and Nash’s equilibrium theorem of 1950" - Nasar (1998)
Nov 5, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Nash's Invention of Non-Cooperative Game Theory (1949-50)
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October 2024
The Entscheidungsproblem (1930s)
In the early 1930s, the provincial town of Princeton, New Jersey was already well on its way to becoming a hotbed for mathematical exploration.
Oct 4, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Entscheidungsproblem (1930s)
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August 2024
John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen
The book John von Neumann: Selected Letters* by Miklós Rédei (2005) is a fascinating collection of 150 of John von Neumann (1903-57)’s correspondences…
Aug 30, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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John von Neumann's 1935 letter to Oswald Veblen
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The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”
Aug 21, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
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Abel: The Mozart of Mathematics
“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his…
Aug 16, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Abel: The Mozart of Mathematics
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May 2024
Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)
Sir Arthur Eddington (1882-1944) was quite a lucky man.
May 8, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Sir Arthur Eddington's Grand Expedition (1919)
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April 2024
The Birth of AI (1956)
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence was an academic workshop sometimes considered to be the founding moment for artificial…
Apr 28, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Birth of AI (1956)
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When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
Famously, after obtaining his Ph.D.
Apr 22, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
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The Great Purge (1933)
“If the dismissal of Jewish scientists means the annihilation of contemporary German science, then we shall do without science for a few years!” — Adolf…
Apr 15, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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