Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world’smost renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this diverse collection of essays, he reflects on their work, their personal relationships, their motives, and their contributions. Even for those people he writes about that he did not know personally, he provides important insights into their lives and work, and questions their character, their decisions, and the lives they led. In the first threeessays, for example, Professor Bernstein looks at economic theory and how some physicists who developed interesting economic models based on derivatives and hedge funds almost led to the country into bankruptcy. In later essays, he discusses a suspect visit to Poland by the great Heisenberg during the Nazi era, a visit that there is almost nothing written about. Presents new informationon the great physicist Werner Heisenberg's life and travels Gives a truly accessible explanation of how hedge funds work Reveals previously unpublished information on the South African nuclear weapons program INDICE: Foreword.- Part I: Economists.- Options.- Black-Scholes.- The Riseand Fall of the Quants.- Part II: Scientists.- Heisenberg in Poland.- The Orion.- Tales from South Africa.- A Nuclear Supermarket.- Ottavio Baldi: The Lifeand Times of Sir henry (Wotton).- Part III: Linguists.- The Spencers of Althorp and Sir William Jones: A Love Story.- All That Glitters.- In a Word, ‘Lions’.- Part IV: Fiction and Stranger Than Fiction.- The Pianist, Fiction and Non-Fiction.- Rocket Science.- The Science of Michel Thomas.- Topology.- What the #$*!?.- Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-387-76505-1
- Editorial: Springer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 220
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés