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The Last Man Who Knew Everything
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Author : Andrew Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2023-05-09
The Last Man Who Knew Everything written by Andrew Robinson and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-09 with History categories.
No one has given the polymath Thomas Young (1773–1829) the all-round examination he so richly deserves—until now. Celebrated biographer Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. As a physicist, Young challenged the theories of Isaac Newton and proved that light is a wave. As a physician, he showed how the eye focuses and proposed the three-colour theory of vision, only confirmed a century and a half later. As an Egyptologist, he made crucial contributions to deciphering the Rosetta Stone. It is hard to grasp how much Young knew. This biography is the fascinating story of a driven yet modest hero who cared less about what others thought of him than for the joys of an unbridled pursuit of knowledge—with a new foreword by Martin Rees and a new postscript discussing polymathy in the two centuries since the time of Young. It returns this neglected genius to his proper position in the pantheon of great scientific thinkers.
The Last Man Who Knew Everything
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Author : David N. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-12-05
The Last Man Who Knew Everything written by David N. Schwartz and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything -- at least about physics. But he was also a complex figure who was a part of both the Italian Fascist Party and the Manhattan Project, and a less-than-ideal father and husband who nevertheless remained one of history's greatest mentors. Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews, The Last Man Who Knew Everything lays bare the enigmatic life of a colossus of twentieth century physics.
The Man Who Knew Everything
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Author : Marilee Peters
language : en
Publisher: Annick Press
Release Date : 2017-10-10
The Man Who Knew Everything written by Marilee Peters and has been published by Annick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Even the man who knew everything was wrong some of the time.
Athanasius Kircher
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Author : Paula Findlen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-08-02
Athanasius Kircher written by Paula Findlen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-02 with History categories.
First published in 2004.Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term electromagnetism, printed Sanskrit for the first time in a Western book, and built a famous museum collection. His wild, beautifully illustrated books are sometimes visionary, frequently wrong, and yet compelling documents in the history of ideas. They are being rediscovered in our own time. This volume contains new essays on Kircher and his world by leading historians and historians of science, including Stephen Jay Gould, Ingrid Rowland, Anthony Grafton, Daniel Stoltzenberg, Paula Findlen, and Barbara Stafford.-
The Man Who Knew Infinity
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Author : Robert Kanigel
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-26
The Man Who Knew Infinity written by Robert Kanigel and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. The book gives a detailed account of his upbringing in India, his mathematical achievements, and his mathematical collaboration with English mathematician G. H. Hardy. The book also reviews the life of Hardy and the academic culture of Cambridge University during the early twentieth century.
The Man Who Knew
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Author : Sebastian Mallaby
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-20
The Man Who Knew written by Sebastian Mallaby and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
WINNER OF THE 2016 FT & McKINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years. Born in 1926, Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother and immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect, rose to become a global financial 'maestro'. Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve, a post he held for eighteen years, he presided over an unprecedented period of stability and low inflation, was revered by economists, adored by investors and consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt. Both data-hound and eligible society bachelor, Greenspan was a man of contradictions. His great success was to prove the very idea he, an advocate of the Gold standard, doubted: that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy. He resigned in 2006, having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy. Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him, even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place. Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety and complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy. Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting, hard hitting dialogue and stories, The Man Who Knew is superbly researched, enormously gripping and the story of the making of modern finance.
The Boy Who Knew Everything
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Author : Victoria Forester
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Boy Who Knew Everything written by Victoria Forester and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
There is a prophecy. It speaks of a girl who can fly and a boy who knows everything. The prophecy says that they have the power to bring about great change . . . . The boy is Conrad Harrington III. The girl is Piper McCloud. They need their talents now, more than ever, if they are to save the world-and themselves. This title has Common Core connections.
The Man Who Saw Everything
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Author : Deborah Levy
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-08-29
The Man Who Saw Everything written by Deborah Levy and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-29 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2019 'An ice-cold skewering of patriarchy, humanity and the darkness of 20th century Europe' The Times _________________________________ 'It's like this, Saul Adler.' 'No, it's like this, Jennifer Moreau.' In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph taken by his girlfriend, Jennifer Moreau. He carries this photo with him to East Berlin: a fragment of the present, an anchor to the West. But in the GDR he finds himself troubled by time - stalked by the spectres of history, slipping in and out of a future that does not yet exist. Until, in 2016, Saul attempts to cross the Abbey Road again . . . _________________________________ 'A time-bending, location-hopping tale of love, truth and the power of seeing. Thoroughly gripping' Sunday Telegraph 'Writing so beautiful it stops the reader on the page' Independent 'Levy splices time in artfully believable, mesmerizing strokes' Lambda Literary 'Skewering totalitarianism - from the state, to the family, to the strictures of the male gaze - Levy explodes conventional narrative to explore the individual's place and culpability within history' Guardian 'An utterly beguiling fever dream' Daily Telegraph
The Man Who Knew Everything
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Author : Tom Stacey
language : en
Publisher: Stacey International
Release Date : 2007
The Man Who Knew Everything written by Tom Stacey and has been published by Stacey International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Journalists categories.
Granville Jones is at the end of his life one of the greats of old-time Fleet Street, once a famous world-roving correspondent, now self-exiled on an island Emirate in the Gulf, an old and forgotten man, long eclipsed by rising stars of television journalism. When the coup breaks it seems that Jones is the last to know. As this story of the early 1950s unfolds, we learn of the great love affair that brought him to his island. Both that ancient love and the indissoluble bonds between Jones and the deposed Emir are caught up by the old man s professional demon. We follow Jones, move by move, playing his endgame with the fragments of physical and mental powers still vouchsafed him. The Man Who Knew Everything is not a tragedy: though it contains pain and tragedy, this finely wrought and moving novel tells of a life redeemed by the commitment of its protagonist to his m'tier.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
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Author : David Leavitt
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2015-01-22
The Man Who Knew Too Much written by David Leavitt and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-22 with History categories.
The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer. To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary programmable calculating machine. But the idea of actually producing a 'thinking machine' did not crystallise until he and his brilliant Bletchley Park colleagues built devices to crack the Nazis' Enigma code, thus ensuring the Allied victory in the Second World War. In so doing, Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, formulating the famous (and still unbeaten) Turing test that challenges our ideas of human consciousness. But Turing's work was cut short when, as an openly gay man in a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain, he was apprehended by the authorities and sentenced to a 'treatment' that amounted to chemical castration. Ultimately, it lead to his suicide, and it wasn't until 2013, after many years of campaigning, that he received a posthumous royal pardon. With a novelist's sensitivity, David Leavitt portrays Turing in all his humanity - his eccentricities, his brilliance, his fatal candour - while elegantly explaining his work and its implications.