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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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The Best Books on: The Golden Age of Quantum Physics
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Dec 4, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)
The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known, was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and…
Sep 3, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Center of the Mathematical Universe
Around the same time as Kronecker obtained his doctorate, Gauss’ star pupil Riemann also transferred to Berlin, where he stayed for two years before…
Aug 8, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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When Heisenberg met Einstein (1926-27)
A mere 24 years old, Werner Heisenberg (1901-76) in 1925 developed a treatment of electron behavior based solely on directly observable quantities such…
Jun 11, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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The Bohr-Einstein Debate (1927)
The year is 1905. Newly graduated with a Ph.D. in physics, Albert Einstein publishes the paper Über einen die Erzeugung und Verwandlung des Lichtes…
May 25, 2021
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Jørgen Veisdal
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