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 ...

Chilean writer Benjamin Labatut’s The MANIAC is a triptych whose first part tells the story of the Austrian physicist Paul Ehrenfest ... John von Neumann while the third examines a five-game ...

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 ...