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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…
Aug 30, 2024
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Jørgen Veisdal
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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…
Apr 15, 2024
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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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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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