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Jørgen Veisdal
Jan 29
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Essays

  • Alan Turing in America

  • Can We Survive Technology? — John von Neumann (1955)

  • Cantor’s Diagonal Argument (1891)

  • Cantor and Dedekind’s Early Correspondence (1873-74)

  • David Hilbert’s Influence on Economics

  • Einstein and Hilbert’s Relativity Race

  • Einstein’s Emigration to America (1932)

  • Einstein’s Paper on the Photoelectric Effect (1905)

  • Gödel's Solution to Einstein’s Field Equations

  • Gödel’s Constitutional Quarrel (1940)

  • John F. Nash Jr.’s Game of “Hex” (1949)

  • John F. Nash Jr.’s Work in Pure Mathematics

  • John von Neumann’s Minimax Theorem (1928)

  • Karl Menger’s Vienna Colloquium (1928-36)

  • Kurt Gödel’s Brilliant Madness

  • Louis Bachelier’s Theory of Speculation (1900)

  • Nash’s Bargaining Problem (1950)

  • On Norbert Wiener’s Relationship with Bertrand Russell

  • Oppenheimer’s Letter of Recommendation for Richard Feynman (1943)

  • Oskar Morgenstern’s Transformation (1925-38)

  • Paul Samuelson’s Flavors of Randomness (2004)

  • Ramanujan's First Letter to G.H. Hardy (1913)

  • Ramanujan’s Early Work on Continued Fractions

  • Richard Feynman's First Lecture (1940)

  • Richard Feynman’s Advice to a Young Stephan Wolfram (1985)

  • The Absent-Minded Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener

  • The Anarchist Abstractionist — Who was Alexander Grothendieck?

  • The Beautiful Life of John F. Nash, Jr.

  • The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)

  • The Bohr-Einstein Debate

  • The Duties of John von Neumann’s Assistant in the 1930s

  • The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer

  • The Einstein-Szilárd Letter (1939)

  • The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)

  • The Hardy-Ramanujan Number

  • The Legend of Abraham Wald

  • The Martians of Budapest

  • The Mathematical Center of the Universe

  • The Mathematical Nomad, Paul Erdős

  • The Mathematics of Ted Kaczynski

  • The Median Voter Theorem (1948)

  • The Poincaré Conjecture (1904)

  • The Riemann Hypothesis, explained

  • The Unparalleled Genius of John von Neumann

  • Turing Uncomputability

  • When Einstein met Churchill (1933)

  • When Feynman met Dirac

  • When Heisenberg met Einstein

  • When Wiener met Einstein (1925)


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