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On The Shoulders Of Giants


Portraits, Encounters and Discussions
with some of the Prime Movers of
Modern Mathematics and Physics
A Folder of 12 articles from Ferment
Roy Lisker Author/Editor


In Memoriam Einstein :

A complete report on the Einstein Centennial Symposium, Institute for Advanced Study, March, 1979.
René Thom: the Aristotelian Vision of Science

Dinner conversations with the inventor of Catastrophe Theory, August, 1986.
Benoit Mandlebrot's Fractal Circus:

Chaos and the view from Cincinnati, Ohio; September, 1987.
The Quest for Alexandre Grothendieck

In the spring of 1988, the author set out on a search for the eccentric, solitary and very famous mathematician, Alexandre Grothendieck. In a ruined stone tower in the south of France, he listened to Grothendieck's views on mathematics, ecology, and the politics of science. October, 1988
Alexander Yesenin-Volpin, logician-dissident:
The life and works of the controversial Intuitionist logician, one of the most celebrated figures of the Russian civil rights movement of the 60's.

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