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Two Cultures

Essays in Honour of David Speiser

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Kim Williams

    1. Kim Williams Books, Torino, Italy

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  • Interdisciplinary studies show the connections between sciences and art
  • Contributions to David Speiser's own field as well as other disciplines are brought to light

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-1
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  2. Truesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures

    1. Reflections on Interdisciplinarianism

      • Kim Williams
      Pages 3-9

  3. The Sciences

    1. David Speiser’s Group Theory: From Stiefel’s Crystallographic Approach to Kac-Moody Algebras

      • Jean-Pierre Antoine
      Pages 13-23

    2. Whither Quantum Theory?

      • David Ritz Finkelstein
      Pages 25-38

    3. The Direct Determination of the Induced Pseudoscalar Current (and About the Slow Metamorphosis of an Institution)

      • Laszlo Grenacs
      Pages 39-44

    4. In Praise of Asymmetry

      • Giuseppe C. La Rocca, Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo
      Pages 45-57

    5. An Observation About the Huygens Clock Problem

      • Donal Hurley, Michael Vandyck
      Pages 59-70

  6. Nuclear Arms

    1. The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons And Their Proliferation

      • Sidney D. Drell
      Pages 181-188

    2. Nuclear Arms Control

      • Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky
      Pages 189-192

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 193-201
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About this book

David Speiser is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Louvain, where he taught mathematics and physics from 1963 to 1990.  His work in history of science included various publications, some of which are related to art history.  Nephew of mathematician Andreas Speiser, David Speiser's own wide-ranging interests have brought him into contact with a panorama of disciplines.  Editor Kim Williams has assembled a group of notes where scholars contribute essays inspired by their contact with Prof. Speiser in honour of his eightieth birthday.  Topics range from history of sciences to history of art, from architecture theory to music theory, from particle physics to the proliferation of nuclear weapons, to an essay on the very nature of interdisciplinary studies.

Contributors: Alessio Ageno, Jean-Pierre Antoine, Sandro Caparrini, Frans A. Cerulus,
Sidney D. Drell, David Ritz Finkelstein, Laszlo Grenacs, Donal Hurley, Giuseppe LaRocca, Siegmund Levarie, Bernd Lindemann, Giulio Maltese, Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky,
Orietta Pedemonte, Patricia Radelet-de Grave, Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo, Michael Vandyck, Piero Villaggio, Kim Williams

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  • Kim Williams Books, Torino, Italy

    Kim Williams

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