Quest

Quest

An Autobiography
Buch | Hardcover
361 Seiten
2006
American Mathematical Society (Verlag)
978-0-8218-4073-3 (ISBN)
61,70 inkl. MwSt
Leopold Infeld was one of the nine eminent scientists who, together with Albert Einstein, signed Bertrand Russell's famous letter warning that in this nuclear age, only a ban on war itself could save this planet (July, 1955). This autobiography of Infeld contains a vivid description of this long-since-vanished world.
Leopold Infeld was one of the nine eminent scientists who, together with Albert Einstein, signed Bertrand Russell's famous letter warning that in this nuclear age, only a ban on war itself could save this planet (July, 1955). Infeld was born in the Jewish ghetto of Cracow, Poland in 1898, and this autobiography contains a vivid description of this long-since-vanished world. He was assistant to and then a scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1936-1938), and this collaboration continued for twelve years while Infeld was at the University of Toronto. In 1938 he wrote a book together with Albert Einstein that became a number one bestseller, The Evolution of Physics. Infeld was lecturer and then Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto from 1938--1950. From 1945-1950 he gave many lectures all over Canada on the elementary physics of the atom bomb, warning that Russia would soon have the bomb and urging that the short period

The beginning and the end Book one: The ghetto Book two: Escape Book three: Search and rescue The end and the beginning Epilogue.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.8.2007
Reihe/Serie AMS Chelsea Publishing
Verlagsort Providence
Sprache englisch
Gewicht 680 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Geschichte der Mathematik
Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-8218-4073-8 / 0821840738
ISBN-13 978-0-8218-4073-3 / 9780821840733
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