Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study

by EdwardRegis (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $11.66

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $3.36

  An anecdotal account of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, which has housed many of the greatest mathematicians and scientists of the century: Einstein, Godel, Oppenheimer, Von Neumann, TD Lee and Mandelbrot among them. Regis interweaves the history of the Institute, its rivalries, friendships, discoveries and great names, with an account of its current researchers and their work on cellular automata, fractals and other areas on the cutting edge of modern science.

• New

  Paperback
  1988

  $22.25

  It was home to Einstein in decline, the place where Kurt Gedel starved himself in paranoid delusion, and where J. Robert Oppenheimer rode out his political persecution in the Directors mansion. It is the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey; at one time or another, home to fourteen Nobel laureates, most of the great physicists and mathematicians of the modern era, and two of the most exciting developments in twentieth-century sciencecellular automata and superstrings. Who Got Einsteins Office? tells for the first time the story of this secretive institution and of its fascinating personalities.