History of Science & Technology Q&A:
History of Science and Technology Q&A (Jan. 27, 2021) »
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Did you ever meet any of the Manhattan Project spies, like Klaus Fuchs etc.?
Did you have interactions with Aaron Swartz?
Is it possible that in moving from the 20 original equations used by Maxwell to the 4 we use today, we treated something as negligible by mistake because quantum theory was not around?
Have you met Elon Musk or Steve Jobs?
Who did you meet when you worked at the Institute for Advanced Study?
Homotopy type theory...
Have you met people related to the Human Genome Project?
Did you interact with Claude Shannon?
The French composer Erik Satie would only eat white food too
Anecdotes about Ed Witten or Lenny Susskind?
Do you know "Physics from Fisher Information" by Roy Frieden?
What's a good place to get one's genome sequenced?
How did Joseph Fourier develop the math that led to the Fourier transformation?
Have you read Gödel's citizenship hearing?
Stories about Steve Jobs?
Anecdotes about Feynman?
The book "Faster than Thought" by Bowden and Leibniz quote...
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