Автор: Budiansky Stephen Название: Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas ISBN: 0393358208 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393358209 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 2691.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law. As an enthusiastic friend, he wrote thousands of letters brimming with an abiding joy in fighting the good fight. Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure.
Автор: Budiansky Stephen Название: Oliver Wendell Holmes: A Life in War, Law, and Ideas ISBN: 0393634728 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780393634723 Издательство: Wiley Цена: 3057.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball's Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity.
Named to the Supreme Court by Theodore Roosevelt at age sixty-one, he served for nearly three decades, writing a series of famous, eloquent, and often dissenting opinions that would prove prophetic in securing freedom of speech, protecting the rights of criminal defendants, and ending the Court's reactionary resistance to social and economic reforms.
As a pioneering legal scholar, Holmes revolutionized the understanding of common law by showing how the law always evolved to meet the changing needs of society. As an enthusiastic friend and indefatigable correspondent, he wrote thousands of personal letters brimming with humorous philosophical insights, trenchant comments on the current scene, and an abiding joy in fighting the good fight.
Drawing on many previously unpublished letters and records, Stephen Budiansky's definitive biography offers the fullest portrait yet of this pivotal American figure, whose zest for life, wit, and intellect left both a profound legacy in law and Constitutional rights, and who was an inspiring example of how to lead a meaningful life in a world of uncertainty and upheaval.
Автор: Budiansky, Stephen Название: The Nature of Horses ISBN: 1407228129 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407228129 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1365.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Budiansky, Stephen Название: The Truth About Dogs ISBN: 1407228110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781407228112 Издательство: Orion Рейтинг: Цена: 1213.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Budiansky Stephen Название: Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gцdel ISBN: 1324005440 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781324005445 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 3062.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gцdel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gцdel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
Stephen Budiansky's Journey to the Edge of Reason is the first biography to fully draw upon Gцdel's voluminous letters and writings--including a never-before-transcribed shorthand diary of his most intimate thoughts--to explore Gцdel's profound intellectual friendships, his moving relationship with his mother, his troubled yet devoted marriage, and the debilitating bouts of paranoia that ultimately took his life. It also offers an intimate portrait of the scientific and intellectual circles in prewar Vienna, a haunting account of Gцdel's and Jewish intellectuals' flight from Austria and Germany at the start of the Second World War, and a vivid re-creation of the early days of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, where Gцdel and Einstein both worked.
Eloquent and insightful, Journey to the Edge of Reason is a fully realized portrait of the odd, brilliant, and tormented man who has been called the greatest logician since Aristotle, and illuminates the far-reaching implications of Gцdel's revolutionary ideas for philosophy, mathematics, artificial intelligence, and man's place in the cosmos.
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