Stephen Budiansky is a historian, biographer, and the author of Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas and Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel. A recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives in Loudoun County, Virginia.
15 E-böcker av Stephen Budiansky
Stephen Budiansky: Nature of Horses
What makes a winning racehorse? How intelligent are horses? What are horses trying to tell us when they stamp their hooves and snort? Do horses talk to each other?The horse, long a symbol of beauty a …
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Stephen Budiansky: Character of Cats
Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A cat in a household is almost literally a fish out of water. That cats can nonetheless get along with p …
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Stephen Budiansky: Truth About Dogs
Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpret …
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Stephen Budiansky: Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
“Consistently gripping.… [I]t’s possessed of a zest and omnivorous curiosity that reflects the boundless energy of its subject.” —Steve Donoghue, Christian Science Monitor Oliver Wendell Holmes escap …
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Stephen Budiansky: Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Incompleteness Theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its …
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€28.99
Stephen Budiansky: Journey to the Edge of Reason
A remarkable account of Kurt Godel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austria …
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€18.01
Stephen Budiansky: Journey to the Edge of Reason
A remarkable account of Kurt Godel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austria …
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€17.90
Stephen Budiansky: Reise zu den Grenzen der Vernunft
»Der absolute Prinz der Dunkelheit der modernen Mathematik« David Foster Wallace über Kurt Gödel Mit seinem Unvollständigkeitssatz stürzte Kurt Gödel die Mathematik in ihre schwerste Krise: Er entde …
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Stephen Budiansky: A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
One of the Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2024 A panoramic account of the fateful Civil War battle and its far-reaching consequences for American society and culture. The Battle of Antietam, …
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