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Perhaps worth mentioning that Paul Erdős had a somewhat vagabondish lifestyle as well - I suspect refugee experience. Back in the early 80s, Rudolf Peierls did
by keithpeter 8y ago
Perhaps worth mentioning that Paul Erdős had a somewhat vagabondish lifestyle as well - I suspect refugee experience.
Back in the early 80s, Rudolf Peierls did a talk to about a hundred of us at Birmingham University about the war, quantum mechanics and Heisenberg. It must have seemed desperate in 1940 in the dark days with worries about family &c.
- pvitz 8y agoEdit: Confused Ulam and Szilard
- oldmartian 8y agoSzilard never had brain surgery.
- pvg 8y agoI think you're confusing Ulam with Szilard. I'm not sure Szilard even comes up in Indiscrete Thoughts
- theoh 8y agoWith Erdős I wonder if there was a bit of this involved http://induecourse.ca/absent-mindedness-as-dominance-behaviour/ http://induecourse.ca/absent-mindedness-as-dominance-behavio... I've never heard his eccentricity attributed to wartime trauma (obviously I'll always be open to new information on that...)