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Andrew Chen • The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a C…
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The work is not done for the sake of an application. It is done for the excitement of what is found out.
Richard P. Feynman • The Meaning of It All
Pierre de Fermat,
Stephen Budiansky • Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
One after another, the greatest figures in physics seemed to develop an unexpected late-career interest in the mystery of life itself, even taking abrupt shifts toward the formal study of biology.
Fei-Fei Li • The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI
Schrödinger, however, realized what was missing from de Broglie’s work was an equation describing how matter waves snaked through space and time, similar to those derived for light
Ananyo Bhattacharya • The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann
Laplace continued his research throughout France’s political upheavals. In 1810 he announced the central limit theorem, one of the great scientific and statistical discoveries of all time. It asserts that, with some exceptions, any average of a large number of similar terms will have a normal, bell-shaped distribution.
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne • The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
Jeremy asked me to engineer, prototype, and sell the glass fiber Sea Truck. An art student just beginning my penultimate year at college, I was offered a job as head of a new marine division of Jeremy’s successful engineering company, Rotork. I jumped at the opportunity. Jeremy, however, insisted that I complete my degree, which is why my third-yea
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