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Constantin Carathéodory
Author | : Maria Georgiadou |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3642185622 |
With breathtaking detail, Maria Georgiadou sheds light on the work and life of Constantin Carathéodory, who until now has been ignored by historians. In her thought-provoking book, Georgiadou maps out the mathematician’s oeuvre, life and turbulent historical surroundings. Descending from the Greek élite of Constantinople, Carathéodory graduated from the military school of Brussels, became engineer at the Assiout dam in Egypt and finally dedicated a lifetime to mathematics and education. He significantly contributed to: calculus of variations, the theory of point set measure, the theory of functions of a real variable, pdes, and complex function theory. An exciting and well-written biography, once started, difficult to put down.
Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb Project, 1939-1945
Author | : Paul Lawrence Rose |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520927168 |
No one better represents the plight and the conduct of German intellectuals under Hitler than Werner Heisenberg, whose task it was to build an atomic bomb for Nazi Germany. The controversy surrounding Heisenberg still rages, because of the nature of his work and the regime for which it was undertaken. What precisely did Heisenberg know about the physics of the atomic bomb? How deep was his loyalty to the German government during the Third Reich? Assuming that he had been able to build a bomb, would he have been willing? These questions, the moral and the scientific, are answered by Paul Lawrence Rose with greater accuracy and breadth of documentation than any other historian has yet achieved. Digging deep into the archival record among formerly secret technical reports, Rose establishes that Heisenberg never overcame certain misconceptions about nuclear fission, and as a result the German leaders never pushed for atomic weapons. In fact, Heisenberg never had to face the moral problem of whether he should design a bomb for the Nazi regime. Only when he and his colleagues were interned in England and heard about Hiroshima did Heisenberg realize that his calculations were wrong. He began at once to construct an image of himself as a "pure" scientist who could have built a bomb but chose to work on reactor design instead. This was fiction, as Rose demonstrates: in reality, Heisenberg blindly supported and justified the cause of German victory. The question of why he did, and why he misrepresented himself afterwards, is answered through Rose's subtle analysis of German mentality and the scientists' problems of delusion and self-delusion. This fascinating study is a profound effort to understand one of the twentieth century's great enigmas.
The Early Karl Barth
Author | : Paul Silas Peterson |
Publisher | : Mohr Siebeck |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2018-04-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3161553608 |
"Paul Silas Peterson presents Karl Barth (1886-1968) in his sociopolitical, cultural, ecclesial, and theological contexts from 1905 to 1935. In the foreground of this inquiry is Barth's relation to the features of his time, especially radical socialist ideology, WWI, an intellectual trend that would later be called the Conservative Revolution, the German Christians, the Young Reformation Movement, and National Socialism."--From back of book.
Hermann Cohen
Author | : Frederick C. Beiser |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2018-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0192563246 |
This book is the first complete intellectual biography of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) and the only work to cover all his major philosophical and Jewish writings. Frederick C. Beiser pays special attention to all phases of Cohen's intellectual development, its breaks and its continuities, throughout seven decades. The guiding goal behind Cohen's intellectual career, he argues, was the development of a radical rationalism, one committed to defending the rights of unending enquiry and unlimited criticism. Cohen's philosophy was therefore an attempt to defend and revive the Enlightenment belief in the authority of reason; his critical idealism an attempt to justify this belief and to establish a purely rational worldview. According to this interpretation, Cohen's thought is resolutely opposed to any form of irrationalism or mysticism because these would impose arbitrary and artificial limits on criticism and enquiry. It is therefore critical of those interpretations which see Cohen's philosophy as a species of proto-existentialism (Rosenzweig) or Jewish mysticism (Adelmann and Köhnke). Hermann Cohen: An Intellectual Biography attempts to unify the two sides of Cohen's thought, his philosophy and his Judaism. Maintaining that Cohen's Judaism was not a limit to his radical rationalism but a consistent development of it, Beiser contends that his religion was one of reason. He concludes that most critical interpretations have failed to appreciate the philosophical depth and sophistication of his Judaism, a religion which committed the believer to the unending search for truth and the striving to achieve the cosmopolitan ideals of reason.
Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences
Author | : Everett Mendelsohn |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780521524858 |
A collection of essays on the development of science and the history of ideas.
Einstein's Unification
Author | : Jeroen van Dongen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0521883466 |
Shedding new light on Einstein's study of unified field theory, this book will interest physicists, historians and philosophers of science.
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