| 书目名称 | Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society | | 编辑 | Jeremy Bernstein | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents new information on 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Werner Heisenberg‘s life and travels.Gives a truly accessible explanation of how hedge funds work.Reveals previously unpublished information on the Sout | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world’s most renowned physicists and other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 three essays, 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...Included also are essays on ancient languages and a nuclear weapons program in South Africa that was supposedly dismantled. In one particularly humorous essay, he describes how an ill-conceived manned spaceship to be powered by an atomic bomb was being developed by some of the country’s most powerf | | 出版日期 | Book 2008 | | 关键词 | Deciphering Linear-B; Hedge Funds; Heisenberg in Poland; Henry Wotton; Michel Thomas; Nuclear weapons dev | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76506-8 | | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-2624-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-76506-8 | | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2008 |
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