Oppenheimer

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 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Birth of the Institute for Advanced Study (1930)

"A first-rate research institution with no teachers, no students, no classes, only researchers protected from the vicissitudes and pressures of the…

Aug 26, 2022 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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 •

Jørgen Veisdal

The Eccentricities of J. Robert Oppenheimer

As a child he collected rocks, wrote poetry and studied French literature. Never weighing more than 130 pounds, throughout his life he was a “tall and…

Jul 23, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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

Let’s journey back to November 1943. The Manhattan project is in its fourth year of operations, and J. Robert Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos Laboratory is…

May 21, 2021 •

Jørgen Veisdal

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