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    'When Einstein Walked with Gödel' is science writing at its best

    May 22, 2018 3 minutes

    The walks referred to in science writer Jim Holt's new book happened on the gorgeous campus of Princeton University in the 1940s, when Albert Einstein, by then one of the most famous and visibly recognizable scientists in the world, would share his walks home with Kurt Gödel, the much-younger titan of conceptual higher mathematics. Fellow members of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study usually looked at these peripatetic conversations only from a distance; one of those members,

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