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When Wiener Met Einstein
- 1e-9 5y ago> He deplores the flooding of the literature by immature, idea-less papers, ... I doubt he would find things much improved in that regard today.
- Guest42 5y agoI was introduced to the Brownian motion paper in grad school. It was remarkably elegant in how short, understandable, and to the point it was with a fairly minimal amount of citations.
- avmich 5y agoA 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.
- gizmodo59 5y agoThis was fascinating: “ Indeed, ominous for Einstein to predict that the leadership of civilization would pass to America and ultimately Asia. Einstein‘s admiration for the United States appears to have begun in 1921, when he visited New York City for the first time. As he then wrote in an essay entitled ‘My First Impression of the U.S.A.’, he was surprised to find that “What strikes a visitor is the joyous, positive attitude to life […] ”
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- varispeed 5y ago> Einstein was often criticized for his support of the Soviet Union and socialist ideals. Interesting. So he didn't like that German regime targeted people like himself, but liked another regime that targeted other people? You cannot choose whether you are born to a rich family, the same way you cannot choose what kind of world you enter into. Both systems used death to achieve their similar goals. I find it quite surprising that such supposedly smart person didn't have enough empathy to see a different way. Maybe scientists shouldn't get themselves involved in politics or pick sides.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoThe part immediately preceding your quote has Einstein showing disgust for the Bolshevik's bigotry, your criticism is ridiculous.
- varispeed 5y agoThis is an example of some meta bigotry and projection...
- danielheath 5y agoAh yes, the famous bigotry against... people who are happy to throw criticism without making any effort to obtain understanding or context. Truly a marginalized group.
- varispeed 5y agoI suggest you have a read what projection means in psychology and why would he criticise Bolsheviks while supporting Soviet Union. Classic behaviour.
- boomboomsubban 5y ago>why would he criticise Bolsheviks while supporting Soviet Union. I would suggest doubting what Nazi propaganda has to say about Einstein supporting the Soviet Union.