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(Off topic) > Scientific biographies often fail to give a realistic description of personality, and thereby create a false idea of scientific work. Any recomm
by ploggingdev 9y ago
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> Scientific biographies often fail to give a realistic description of personality, and thereby create a false idea of scientific work.
Any recommendations for biographies which give a realistic look into famous scientists' lives? I am reading the Einstein biography by Walter Isaacson and it's pretty good so far.
Completely off topic : how do you configure a LAN to have <domain>/~username urls (such as the linked post's url) exposed to the internet? I remember having such a directory in my school's linux network where I could place files in public or public_html (can't remember)and other users could access it by going to <internal school ip>/~myname, but it wasn't exposed to the internet.
- hoke_t 9y agoTry "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman?"
- BeetleB 9y agoWhile entertaining, I think biographies are better than autobiographies.
- HiroshiSan 9y agoSurely you're joking Mr Feynman is an autobiography and definitely does not reflect Feynmans life unbiasedly. Its a great book but if you want a more unbiased account of his life check out Genius by James Gleick. Walter Isaacson also just came out with a biography on da Vinci and he has one on Benjamin Franklin, though I never finished it, it was written to the same standard as Einstein.
- sn9 9y agoSurely You're Joking is a great read but Genius is what you read for genuine insight into the man, and it's probably the best biography I've yet read.
- throw-away-8 9y agoHeilbroner. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers.
- __float 9y agohttps://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_userdir.html
- veddox 9y ago"The Invention of Nature" about Alexander von Humboldt, by Andrea Wulf. Very in-depth book about a naturalist who deserves to be much better known than he generally is. It also includes several chapters with mini-biographies of famous people who were influenced by Humboldt.