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Remembering an Era: Roger Penrose’s Paper on “Gravitational Collapse: The Role of General Relativity”
2018
Back in the 1960s, Einstein’s theory of general relativity re-emerged as a field of important research activity. Much of the impetus behind this resurgence came from powerful new mathematical ideas that Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking applied to prove general singularity theorems for global space-time structures. Their results stirred the imaginations of astrophysicists and gave relativistic cosmology an entirely new research agenda. A decade later, black holes and the big hang model were on the tongues of nearly everyone who followed recent trends in science. As popular expositions dealing with quasars, pulsars, and the geometry of black holes began to appear in magazines and textbooks, …
Physics meets Bohemia Einstein in Bohemia Michael D. Gordin Princeton University Press, 2020. 360 pp.
2020
In Einstein in Bohemia, Michael Gordin seeks to illuminate the elusive significance of Einstein9s brief tenure in Prague, both for the biography of the famous physicist and for the cultural history of Bohemia. An expert in the history of modern physical sciences and of Russian, European, and American history, Gordin pulls together a wealth of information about the wider context of Einstein9s stay in Prague and of the cultural, scientific, and political history of Bohemia.
Memories and Legacies of Emmy Noether
2021
Those who knew Emmy Noether best were her fellow Germans in exile, in particular her former colleague in Gottingen, Hermann Weyl.
Emmy Noether’s Triumphal Years
2020
When Emmy Noether returned from the September 1929 conference in Prague – where she and Hasse surely spoke about their mutual mathematical interests – she belatedly answered a postcard he had sent here.
Polish contemporary art to the anti-semitism of Poles and its political significance
2016
Abstract This article presents artistic creativity which worked through the problem of Polish anti-Semitism. Almost all discussed works, performances, films, projects appeared after 2000, when Jan Tomasz Gross published his book Neighbors, in which he described the massacre in the village of Jedwabne (1941) launching a public debate about the responsibility of Poles in the Holocaust of the Jews. In the text, I showed as art, which is conventionally called “post-Jedwabne” was part of this debate. Its political status on possibly general level was associated primarily with the revision of conventionalized historical memory and national identity formed on romantic patterns. The text shows that…
Euripides’Andromache, a Choral Tragedy
2013
Andrómaca es una tragedia coral por diversas razones: por el papel tan singular que el coro desempeña en ella desde el comienzo mismo; y porque en ella, a través de dos mujeres enfrentadas, Andrómaca y Hermíone, convergen en la trama dramática una serie de parejas/tríos que marcan el discurrir de unas sagas épico-dramáticas de gran rendimiento en la tradición cultural y literaria griega. Es también una tragedia coral porque en ella se alcanza el destino fi nal de las dos partes implicadas en la mayor guerra mítica de la Antigüedad. Andromache is a choral tragedy because the singular role of the chorus in the whole play and because in its plot there is a group of couples/trios, which lead th…
Besprechung: CHR. GASTGEBER - E. MITSIOU - I. A. POP - M. POPOVIĆ - J. PREISER-KAPELLER - A. SIMON (Hrsg.), Matthias Corvinus und seine Zeit. Europa …
2013
Besprechung:<span style="line-height: 115%; font-variant: small-caps; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt">Chr. Gastgeber - E. Mitsiou - I. A. Pop - M. Popović - J. Preiser-Kapeller - <span>&nbsp;</span>A. Simon</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 11pt"> (Hrsg.), <em>Matthias Corvinus und seine Zeit. Europa am &Uuml;bergang vom Mittelalter zur Neuzeit zwischen Wien und Konstantinopel</em> (= Ver&ouml;ffentlichungen zur Byzanzforschung, Bd. 27 = &Ouml;AW. Phil.-hist. Klasse, Denschriften, Bd. 409), Wien 2011, 265 S. ISBN 978-3-7001-6891-1</span>