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‘The Man From the Future’ Recounts the Life of a Restless Genius
的歷史分叉點在1945年8月日本的兩次核爆.......
有點不可解的是，目前的《胡適日記》，1945年部分從缺。我還不知道原因。
First Edition Edition
Review
"The stuff of Heims' study—a pair of child prodigies, mathematical geniuses, eccentrics, Jews, academic heavyweights, cultural powers—is almost too good to be true. Wiener and von Neumann were legends in their lifetimes, men whose paths often crossed and whose mutual affection and respect persisted, even when political views separated them in later years...provocative and fascinating."
—Kirkus Reviews
"A joint biography of two of the intellectual giants of the 20th century.... Heims captures the tension of the Manhattan Project...and continues with the story of the nuclear weapons race of the early 1950s, which he views as inhuman. He also seeks to define the social function of scientists."
—Library Journal
March 16, 2018
Format: Paperback|Verified Purchase
A great subject for a book: compare and contrast two great mathematicians from the same era. The first 10 chapters do this very well. It all goes wrong when nuclear weapons enter the picture. The author presents his own opinions as dogma and this elevates the pacifist Wiener and denigrates the hawkish von Neumann, I should be clear - I actually share the author's view about the lack of moral justification for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, my view arises from careful consideration of the persuasive arguments made both for and against. The author ignores balanced argument and instead presents his (and, by chance, my own) opinion as incontestable fact. Von Neumann's magnificent contribution to economic theory - The Theory of Games - is badly played down on the grounds that its application to military strategy might lead to global annihilation. Using this book as a soapbox for the author's opinions on nuclear warfare does little justice to either of the subjects.
- Paperback: 568 pages
- Publisher: The MIT Press; First Edition edition (June 17, 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 026258056X
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