Harold J. Morowitz
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- Review of "No time to be brief: A scientific biography of Wolfgang Pauli" by Charles P. Enz, Oxford University press, 2002
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A Joint Review of "A History of Pi, by Petr Beckmann", St. Martins's Press, 1976, Barnes and Noble Books, 1989; "The Joy of Pi, by David Blatner", Walker & Co., 1997; "The Nothing That Is, by Robert Kaplan", Oxford University Press, 1999; "e: The Story of a Number, by Eli Maor", Princeton University Press, 1998; "An Imaginary Tale, by Paul Nahin", Princeton University Press, 1998; "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, by Charles Seife", Viking Press, 2000.
We are in the midst of an onslaught of books devoted to particular numbers. In this article we will be concerned with several recent and not-so-recent books about pi, e, i, and 0; of the quantities in the famous equation e(pi)i + 1 = 0, only 1 does not ...
Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage
This paper is centered on the correspondence that took place between Lady Lovelace and Charles Babbage, particularly during her writing of the extensive notes that accompany her translation of Menabrea's paper on Babbage's Analytical Engine. The ...
Review of "The labyrinths of information: Challenging the wisdoms of systems" by Claudio Ciborra, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2002
Special issue: Personal reflections on Claudio Ciborra's life and work
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