[HN Gopher] When Wiener Met Einstein ___________________________________________________________________ When Wiener Met Einstein Author : turndown Score : 17 points Date : 2021-05-01 04:53 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (cantorsparadise.substack.com) (TXT) w3m dump (cantorsparadise.substack.com) | avmich wrote: | A nice recollection of some events in the spring of modern | science. Russian revolution happened just recently, and Hitler | didn't yet get to power, although a German magazine printed a | list of "enemies of the German regime". Heisenberg is about to | publish his paper, Marie Curie and Hendrik Lorentz - two-times | Novel laureates - participate in intellectual cooperation | committee, the large part of XX century - WWII, Hiroshima, moon | landing, Cold War - are still ahead in the future. | 1e-9 wrote: | > He deplores the flooding of the literature by immature, idea- | less papers, ... | | I doubt he would find things much improved in that regard today. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-05-02 23:01 UTC)