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n great pleasure in having forgers hanged on Tower Hill. He claimed the invention of differential calculus despite it being invented independently by Gottfried Leibniz. Newton managed to have himself appointed to chair the committee reviewing Leibniz’s work and determine who had come up with the idea first. Unsurpri
finger, y and your thumb, z. At any moment you can move your hand to point in any direction and take a measurement. We will have to round up or down. Quantum mechanics is named ‘quantum because ail the readings must be whole numbers. You will never see 10% spin in x, 90% in y and 85% in z; just ones, and z
. It has an “I want” init. We have to find a precise symbolic representation of the desires we express in human natural language. In the late 1600s, Gottfried Leibniz, John Wilkins, and others were concerned with what they called philosophical languages—that is, complete, universal, symbolic representations of thin
at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times
. It has an “I want” init. We have to find a precise symbolic representation of the desires we express in human natural language. In the late 1600s, Gottfried Leibniz, John Wilkins, and others were concerned with what they called philosophical languages—that is, complete, universal, symbolic representations of thin
at MIT, and head of its Program in Science, Technology & Society. He is the author of How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival and American Physics and the Cold War Bubble (forthcoming). In The Sleepwalkers, a sweeping history of scientific thought from ancient times
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