Passion For Discovery, A

By: Peter G O Freund

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Paperback | 14 August 2007

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This fascinating book assembles human stories about physicists and mathematicians. Remarkably, these stories cluster around some general themes having to do with the interaction between scientists, and with the impact of historic events - such as the advent of fascism and communism in the twentieth century - on scientists' behavior. Briefly, but lucidly, some of the beautiful science that brought these scientists together in the first place is explained.Author's webpage: freund9.googlepages.com/peterfreundwritings.

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"Like the author, these stories are full of wisdom, wit and humor. Sometimes they are hilarious and sometimes tragic. They need to be told, and I suspect that Peter Freund is the only one who can tell them."Leonard SusskindAuthor of The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design"Freund is at his best when he focuses on one, perhaps two, scientists in each chapter ... Throughout his long career, Freund has obviously met many influential scientists and collected many fascinating stories about them and their colleagues."CERN Courier"Can there be a common endeavour, whether physics or poetry, that can remain objective when the researchers involved are also people? According to Peter Freund, one of the founding physicists of String Theory, in his book "A Passion for Discovery," the answer is Yes and No ... Poetry esthetics might seem a lot less imposing than theoretical physics, but it isn't. Outlandish humans make both."Andrei CodrescuCommentator National Public Radio, Columnist, Novelist and Poet

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Preface	p. v
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Einstein Once Removed	p. 1
Heisenberg's Turn	p. 7
A True Aristocrat	p. 14
The Conscience of Physics	p. 20
The Wizard of Pasadena	p. 26
Back to Maupertuis	p. 32
The Language of God	p. 37
Emmy Noether and the Urge for the Abstract	p. 43
Oswald Teichmuller and Nazi Science	p. 51
Spontaneous Breakdown of Human Decency	p. 58
Scientists in Politics	p. 61
Jews in Science. The Backlash	p. 69
Stalin and the Quantum	p. 77
Mister Sakharov Goes to Kiev	p. 82
Mr. Yang also Goes to Kiev	p. 87
The Stone Age and the Fermi Era	p. 94
The Serene Sensei	p. 99
Oppenheimer, Hero or Antihero?	p. 105
Viennese Physics, Then and Now	p. 110
The Importance of a Sense of Humor	p. 123
The Russian Style	p. 129
Chandra, Passionate Cambridge Gentleman	p. 134
On and Off the Map: Romanian Mathematics	p. 143
Du cote de chez Telegdi, the Experimental Side	p. 151
Leader of the Pack	p. 160
New Dimensions	p. 165
A Brief History of Space	p. 173
The Coming Age	p. 182
Epilogue: The Goal and the Means	p. 184
Sources, Comments and Some More Stories Masquerading as Comments	p. 192
Index	p. 211
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