Privatdozent

Privatdozent

Home
Essays
Audio
Recommendations
Support
Archive
About

Oppenheimer

John F. Nash Jr.'s Letter to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1957)
"There is general phenomenon, affecting mathematics and physics, of evolutionary elegantizing camou­f­lage"
 • 
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…
 • 
Jørgen Veisdal
4
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…
 • 
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…
 • 
Jørgen Veisdal
2
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…
 • 
Jørgen Veisdal
© 2025 Privatdozent
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start writingGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture