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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 La Rocca, 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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Reflections on Interdisciplinarianism
Pages 3-9
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David Speiser’s Group Theory: From Stiefel’s Crystallographic Approach to Kac-Moody Algebras
Pages 13-23
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Whither Quantum Theory?
Pages 25-38
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The Direct Determination of the Induced Pseudoscalar Current (and About the Slow Metamorphosis of an Institution)
Pages 39-44
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In Praise of Asymmetry
Pages 45-57
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Two Cultures
- Book Subtitle
- Essays in Honour of David Speiser
- Editors
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- Kim Williams
- Copyright
- 2006
- Publisher
- Birkhäuser Basel
- Copyright Holder
- Birkhäuser Basel
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-7643-7540-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/3-7643-7540-X
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-7643-7186-9
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- VI, 202
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