Epstein Secrets

s in it taking the shortest route possible from its initial to final position. The related 1650 Fermat’s “principle of least time” is about light. As Feynman explains in his Lectures in Physics, “...out of all possible paths that light might take from one point another, light takes the path that requires t

M. Keane and C. Series, Oxford, Oxford, 1991. The Mathematical Theory of Communication, Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver, U. of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1963. Science and Information Theory, Leon Brillouin, Academic Press, N.Y. 1962. Brain Metabolism and Cerebral Disorders, Harold E. Himwich, Willi

ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum

ver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” in Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1949), p. 8 (emphasis in original). Shannon’s 1948 papers were republished in the same volume. 110 HOUSE_OVERSIG

ard Feynman, at which the celebrated physicist remarked, “That is positively the dopiest idea I ever heard.” Maybe “despite” is the wrong word, since Feynman had a well-known predilection for playing with dopey ideas. In the event, he showed up on the day the company was incorporated and stayed on, for sum

ver, “Recent Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Communication,” in Claude Shannon & Warren Weaver, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1949), p. 8 (emphasis in original). Shannon’s 1948 papers were republished in the same volume. 110 HOUSE_OVERSIG