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Životopis jednoho z nejvlivnějších a nejzáhadnějších matematiků dvacátého století. Na okraji rozumu je portrétem podivínského a geniálního brněnského rodáka Kurta Gödela, označovaného za největšího logika od dob Aristotelových. Kniha velmi přístupně osvětluje dalekosáhlé důsledky Gödelových převratných myšlenek pro filozofii, matematiku a umělou inteligenci. Autor Stephen Budiansky se snaží co nejvěrněji zrekonstruovat Gödelův život v Brně, v předválečné Vídni i jeho působení na Princetonském institutu pro pokročilá studia. Zkoumá...

The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby turning the tide of Allied victory. In the postwar years, as the United States developed a new enemy in the Soviet Union, our intelligence community found itself targeting not soldiers on the battlefield, but suspected spies, foreign leaders, and even American citizens. Throughout the...

»Der absolute Prinz der Dunkelheit der modernen Mathematik« 
David Foster Wallace über Kurt Gödel

Mit seinem Unvollständigkeitssatz stürzte Kurt Gödel die Mathematik in ihre schwerste Krise: Er entdeckte, dass jedes sinnvolle logische System Sätze enthalten muss, die wahr, aber niemals beweisbar sind.

Stephen Budiansky erzählt das Leben des brillanten Denkers - vom Wien der Vorkriegszeit über Gödels Flucht in die USA bis zu seinem neuen Wirkungskreis in Princeton, wo er auf Albert Einstein trifft, mit dem er später eng...

A Washington Post Notable Book

In March 1941, after a year of devastating U-boat attacks, the British War Cabinet turned to an intensely private, bohemian physicist named Patrick Blackett to turn the tide of the naval campaign. Though he is little remembered today, Blackett did as much as anyone to defeat Nazi Germany, by revolutionizing the Allied anti-submarine effort through the disciplined, systematic implementation of simple mathematics and probability theory. This is the story of how British and American civilian intellectuals helped change the nature of...

Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African Americans and their white allies were killed by terrorist violence. Drawing on original letters and diaries as well as published racist diatribes of the time, acclaimed historian Stephen Budiansky concentrates his vivid, fast paced narrative on the efforts of five heroic men?two Union...

In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the U.S. Navy during the War of 1812, when an upstart American fleet fought off the legendary Royal Navy and established America as a world power for the first time.

Through vivid re-creations of riveting and dramatic encounters at sea, Budiansky shows how this underdog coterie of seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy combined bravery and strategic brilliance to defeat the British, who had dominated the seas for more than two centuries. A gripping and essential hsitory, this is the military and political...