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‎Who got Einstein's Office - Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study‎

‎Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Inc. Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1988 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, editor's blue printed wrappers, illustrated by 2 black photographs grand In-8 1 vol. - 331 pages‎

‎few text-figures First paperback, 1988 Contents, Chapitres : Contents, Preface, Acknowledgments, xv, Text, 316 pages - The platonic heavens - 1. The priesthood of the cosmos : The pope of physics - The grand high exalted mystical ruler - Behold the forms - 2. Heretics : Good time Johnny - The Nim-Nim-Nim man - 2. Extremes of vision : Hubble, Bubble toll and trouble - Carrying the fire - The truth about things - 4. Life, the Universe, and everything - Epilogue - Babes in Toyland - Appendix : Program for the Mandelbrot set and cellular automata - Sources and index - Edward Regis, Jr (born 1944) known as Ed Regis is an American philosopher, educator and author. He specializes in books and articles about science, philosophy and intelligence. His topics have included nanotechnology, transhumanism and biological warfare. His articles have appeared in several scientific magazines, including Scientific American, Harper's Magazine, Wired, Discover, The New York Times, Journal of Philosophy, Ethics and the American Philosophical Quarterly. - The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), located in Princeton, New Jersey, in the United States, is an independent postdoctoral research center for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. It has served as the academic home of internationally preeminent scholars, including Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Hermann Weyl, John von Neumann, and Kurt Gödel, after they immigrated to the United States. (source : Wikipedia) minor folding tracks on the corners of the wrappers which remains clean, inside is near fine, no markings, a very good reading copy, paper slightly yellowing‎