Two Cultures

The extraordinary range of cultural interests of renowned physicist David Speiser ''‚¬" including the sciences, art, architecture, music, and history of science ''‚¬" has inspired generations of later scientists to look beyond the boundaries of their own disciplines. In this book seventeen scholars pay tribute to his multifaceted career.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

Introduction

Foreword

1

(2)

Luigi A. Radicati di Brozolo

Reflections on Interdisciplinarianism

3

(10)

Kim Williams

The Sciences

David Speiser's Group Theory: From Stiefel's Crystallographic Approach to Kac-Moody Algebras

13

(12)

Jean-Pierre Antoine

Whither Quantum Theory?

25

(14)

David Ritz Finkelstein

The Direct Determination of the Induced Pseudoscalar Current (and about the slow metamorphosis of an institution)

39

(6)

Laszlo Grenacs

In Praise of Asymmetry

45

(14)

Giuseppe La Rocca

Luigi Radicati Di Brozolo

An Observation about the Huygens Clock Problem

59

(14)

Donal Hurley

Michael Vandyck

The History of Science

Daniel Bernoulli and Leonhard Euler on the Jetski

73

(24)

Frans A. Cerulus

On the Changing Fortune of the Newtonian Tradition in Mechanics

97

(18)

Giulio Maltese

Studies of Magnetism in the Correspondence of Daniel Bernoulli

115

(18)

Patricia Radelet-De Grave

On Enriques's Foundations of Mechanics

133

(6)

Piero Villaggio

On the Common Origin of Some of the Works on the Geometrical Interpretation of Complex Numbers

139

(16)

Sandro Caparrini

The Arts

Architecture and Music

155

(4)

Siegmund Levarie

An Unusual Sacra Conversazione by Giovanni Bellini

159

(8)

Bernd Lindemann

Ancient Astrological and Musical Analogies in the Renaissance: Palladio's Villa Rotunda and a Geometric Construction by Leonardo

167

(14)

Alessio Ageno

Orietta Pedemonte

Nuclear Arms

The Gravest Danger: Nuclear Weapons and their Proliferation

181

(8)

Sidney D. Drell

Nuclear Arms Control

189

(6)

Wolfgang K.H. Panofsky

Reference

Bibliography of Works

195

David Speiser

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