Beschreibung:
This is the fascinating history of the Institute for Advanced Study, which was home to fourteen Nobel laureates and most of the century's greatest mathematicians and physicists, including Einstein, Kurt Godel, and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
* Prologue; The Platonic Heaven The Priest of the Cosmos * The Pope of Physics * The Grand High Exalted Mystical Ruler * Behold the Forms Heretics * Good Time Johnny * The Nim-Nim-Nim Man Extremes of Vision * Hubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble * Carrying the Fire * The Truth About Things Life, the Universe, and Everything * Natures Own Software * Beyond the Invisible Epilogue * Babes in Toyland