Arthur I. Miller

137: Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of a Scientific Obsession

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The history is fascinating, as are the insights into the personalities of these great thinkers.”—New ScientistIs there a number at the root of the universe? A primal number that everything in the world hinges on? This question exercised many great minds of the twentieth century, among them the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli and the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung. Their obsession with the power of certain numbers—including 137, which describes the atom's fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance—led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical quest reaching deep into medieval alchemy,… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-393-07130-6
EAN: 9780393071306
Produktnummer: 34249491
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 2'944 KB
Abbildungen: 66 b/w illustrations

Über den Autor

Arthur I. Miller is a professor emeritus at University College London. He has published many critically acclaimed books, including Einstein, Picasso; Empire of the Stars; and 137. He lives in London.