Kurt Godel s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one another both were brilliant, and both met with tragic ends. Here, a mysterious narrator intertwines these parallel lives into a double helix of genius and anguish, wonderfully capturing not only two radiant, fragile minds but also the zeitgeist of the era.
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Kurt Godel s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein s dominant phil...
With A New Preface The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves--by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.
In 1916, Einstein predicted the presence of gravitational waves. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, evidence of the waves' existence caused by the collision of two black holes. An authoritative account of the headline-making discovery by theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer Janna Levin, Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space recounts the fascinating...
With A New Preface The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves--by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist an...
