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Who got Einstein's office? : eccentricity and genius at the Institute for Advanced Study / Ed Regis

An account of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, profiling figures such as Einstein, Gödel, and Oppenheimer. The text chronicles the institute's history and internal dynamics alongside modern research into cellular automata and fractals.

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