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January 2025

Turing's Work on the Riemann Hypothesis
Alan Turing (1912-54) is a well-known name for a variety of reasons.
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Jørgen Veisdal
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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"
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Jørgen Veisdal
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…
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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…
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Jørgen Veisdal
The von Neumann-Morgenstern Collaboration (1938-43)
“It will be a strange essay for economists, but it can be important. Very.”
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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…
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Jørgen Veisdal

May 2024

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…
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When Turing met Wittgenstein (1939)
Famously, after obtaining his Ph.D.
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Jørgen Veisdal
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…
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The Einstein-Freud Correspondence (1932)
Is there any way of delivering mankind from the menace of war?
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August 2022

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Episode 8: Einstein and Hilbert's Relativity Race
This episode of The Privatdozent Podcast is based on the July 3rd 2021 newsletter 'Einstein and Hilbert's Relativity Race'. Read by Steve King, the…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #12
Terence Tao (1975-) is just about as close to a modern-day David Hilbert (1862-1943) as anyone might imagine. As of 2022, he has authored or co-authored…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Best Books on: Kurt Gödel
Hi there A few mathematicians’ biographies are especially notable, both in terms of the mathematicians’ achievements and their personalities. Nash, von…
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John von Neumann: The Man from the Future (2022)
A conversation with Ananyo Bhattacharya. Ananyo is an accomplished writer who has worked at both Nature and The Economist and holds a Ph.D. in…
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Jørgen Veisdal
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Privatdozent Photo Edition #11
Einstein stayed in Pasadena, California as a visiting professor at Caltech for three winter terms, in 1931, ‘32 and ‘33. According to the Caltech…
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March 2022

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