Janna Levin, Author . Knopf $23.95 (230p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4030-8
The lives of Kurt Gödel (1906– 1978) and Alan Turing (1912– 1954) never crossed physically, but did intellectually: Gödel's incompleteness theorem implies a sort of Platonism, and Turing's mechanical decision theory...
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Janna Levin. Knopf, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-307-95819-8
Following the detection of gravitational waves 100 years after Einstein predicted their existence, Levin, a professor of physics and astronomy at Barnard College, goes behind the scenes for a chatty insider's look at the brilliant, eccentric people...
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Janna Levin. Knopf, $22 (150p) ISBN 978-0-525-65822-1
“Black holes are special because there’s nothing there,” astrophysicist Levin (How the Universe Got Its Spots) observes playfully at the start of her enthusiastic cosmic survey. She begins with how Einstein’s general theory of relativity, in...
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