third-person narrative that has no explicit connection with the life of John von Neumann, but would have fit perfectly in the earlier book. It is the true story of Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian ...

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I write about physics, science, academia, and pop culture. A few weeks back, MIT Press published a piece about Paul Ehrenfest by Eric Johnson, whose biography of Boltzmann I reviewed here a while ...

THEORETICAL physics has lost one of its ablest and most enthusiastic exponents through the death on September 25 last of Paul Ehrenfest, professor of theoretical physics in the University of Leyden.

For a period in the 1920s he would spend about a month each year at the Dutch university at the invitation of his friend, the physicist Paul Ehrenfest . “We have a few memories from that period ...

Paul Neumann cannot digest the up-tempo pro basketball games of today compared to his playing days in the NBA from 1959 through 1967. But there is no escaping the past, and Neumann’s name always ...