217 research outputs found
Einstein's Hair - Big Bangs or Supernova
No full textProfessor Andy Zangwill from the Georgia Tech School of Physics, a science history enthusiast joins us to talk about Albert Einstein, the man, the hair and the science. We will discuss the unusual celebrity of this noted scientist and debunk some common misconceptions
A Mind Over Matter: The Life and Science of Philip W. Anderson
No full textPresented online on October 12, 2020 at 3:00 p.m.Andrew Zangwill is a Professor in the Physics department at Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests are the history of 20th Century physics and condensed matter physics.Runtime: 73:20 minutesDr. Zangwill presents a biographical survey of the life and science of Nobel Laureate Philip W. Anderson, arguably the most productive and influential theoretical physicist of the second half of the twentieth century. He discusses Anderson's upbringing in the American Midwest during the Great Depression, his education at Harvard University, his service during WW II, and his subsequent career as a condensed matter physicist at Bell Laboratories, Cambridge University, and Princeton University. He shares the back story for some of his best-known scientific achievements and also for some of his forays into national and scientific politics. A few remarks about his activities as a public intellectual and his personal life round out the talk
Without Prejudice
No full textZangwill, Israel. Without Prejudice. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896
Jewish author and political activist, Israel Zangwill (1864 - 1926), was passionate about campaigning for the oppressed. Many of his works address women\u27s suffrage, pacifism, Zionism, and Jewish emancipation. He was a strong believer in assimilation and is best known for his influential novel Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People (1892) which was later released as a play titled The Melting Pot (1908). Zangwill is credited with coining the term melting pot to describe the fusion of various cultures and ethnicities. This is a rare volume of literary essays and travel accounts. Most of the selections were originally printed in Pall Mall Magazine.- Biblio.com
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Modern electrodynamics
No full textAn engaging writing style and a strong focus on the physics make this comprehensive, graduate-level textbook unique among existing classical electromagnetism textbooks. Charged particles in vacuum and the electrodynamics of continuous media are given equal attention in discussions of electrostatics, magnetostatics, quasistatics, conservation laws, wave propagation, radiation, scattering, special relativity and field theory. Extensive use of qualitative arguments similar to those used by working physicists makes Modern Electrodynamics a must-have for every student of this subject. In 24 chapters, the textbook covers many more topics than can be presented in a typical two-semester course, making it easy for instructors to tailor courses to their specific needs. Close to 120 worked examples and 80 applications boxes help the reader build physical intuition and develop technical skill. Nearly 600 end-of-chapter homework problems encourage students to engage actively with the material. A solutions manual is available for instructors at www.cambridge.org/Zangwill
Ineffable w filozofii muzyki. Zangwill wobec Jankélévitcha
No full textThe Ineffable in Philosophy of Music. Zangwill versus Jankélévitch. The ineffable (l'ineffable) is a fundamental concept for a range of twentieth-century French philosophers (Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl). It plays a particularly important role in Vladimir Jankélévitch’s philosophy of music, being also one of the crucial elements of his thought as a whole, including his ineffabilist metaphysics and moral philosophy. In Nick Zangwill’s latest book (2014), which makes no reference to this continental tradition, the inef-fable reemerges as a key component of a philosophical defence of formalism in musical aes-thetics and of realism with respect to musical aesthetic properties. My aim in this paper is to explore the effective interrelation between these two musical inef-fabilisms, despite the fact that the author of Music and the Ineffable is never mentioned in Zangwill’s text. First, I discuss briefly the triad indicible – ineffable – inexprimable in Janké-lévitch, taking into account his negative metaphysics and ethics, as well as his Neoplatonic roots (Plotinus, Proclus), his dialogue with apophatic theology (Pseudo-Dionysius, Cappado-cian Fathers) and the abundant references to mysticism (St John of the Cross, Jakob Böhme, Angelus Silesius) in this context. Second, I reconstruct and discuss Zangwill’s three fundamental theses on music: formalism, realism and ineffabilism, offering some critical re-marks. Third, I propose an original general classification of the ineffabilist theses on music (three universal and four particular), ordered with respect to the traditional formalist – anti-formalist antithesis. As a result, various distinct ineffabilist theses are made explicit, com-pared and put in order. In the fourth and last part, I argue that both authors characterise the musical ineffable consistently in terms of immanent sense, typical of the ineffabilist theses grouped in my taxonomy as formalist, rejecting anti-formalist sorts of ineffabilism. Thus Jankélévitch, for all the methodological, axiological and stylistic features to which Zangwill is diametrically opposed, can be perfectly catalogued under the label coined by Zangwill for his own view on music: immanent mysticism
Walter Kohn and the Creation of Density Functional Theory
No full textPresented on September 22, 2014 in the Pettit Building room 102 A&B at 3:00 p.m.Andrew Zangwill is a Professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. He received his B.S. in Physics from Carnegie-Mellon University and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.Runtime: 64:00 minutesThe theoretical physicist Walter Kohn was awarded one-half the 1998 Nobel Prize
for Chemistry for his mid-1960's creation of an approach to the many-particle
problem in quantum mechanics called density functional theory (DFT). DFT
establishes that the ground state charge density provides a complete
description of ALL the properties of any atom, molecule, or solid. This was a
breakthrough (both conceptually and computationally) because it had been
presumed previously that the vastly more complicated many-electron wave
function was essential for this purpose. In this talk, I present a
biographical sketch of Kohn's unusual educational experiences and the events
in his professional career which led him to create DFT. A coda explains how
the chemists came to award "their" Nobel prize to a card-carrying physicist
A Prophet and His People: Israel Zangwill and His American Public, 1892-1926 and Beyond
No full textThis dissertation explores the unique, significant, and sometimes contentious relationship that existed between British Jewish author and activist Israel Zangwill and the Jewish community of the United States of America from 1892-1926 and beyond. Employing a broad definition of prophets and prophecy based on the works of prominent theologians, anthropologists, sociologists, and others, this dissertation argues that Zangwill's vision of America as a new, diasporic cultural and religious center was so significant that we may reasonably characterize him as a prophet of American Judaism. This dissertation carefully studies Zangwill's prophecy and the American Jewish reaction to Zangwillian thought to better understand both the nature of Zangwill's thinking and the American Jewish community's reception of that thought. In so doing it provides important insight into Zangwill's prophetic vision for America, as well as the American Jewish community's ideological divisions, limited tolerance for criticism, and anxieties over American toleration of Jews and Judaism in the Progressive era, the 1920s, and beyond. It places the narrative of Zangwill and America within the context of American Jewish intellectual history, as well as a broader, late-nineteenth-early-twentieth-century, trans-diasporic discourse on the prospective significance of America in Jewish life and culture. Of equal importance, this study carefully explores the phenomenon of modern fame as an important component in Zangwill's popularity and legitimacy in American Jewish discourse. dissertationIt grants particular focus to the role that Israel Zangwill's American public played in determining the nature of Zangwill's fame, noting the ways in which Americans helped establish the late British Jewish author's reputation as an expert on Jews and Jewish affairs despite the fact that Zangwill preferred to be known as an artist unbound by the strictures of religion, nation, or tribe. In its conclusion, thisconsiders the ways in which American Jews have written about and discussed Zangwill since his death. It notes the proclivity of twentieth-century, American Jewish intellectuals to reduce Zangwill's biography to a synecdochic device illustrating the supposed painful divisions of the modern Jewish personality, and it argues that this study, in conjunction with the recent works of literary scholars Edna Nahshon and Meri-Jane Rochelson, signals a new direction in the study of Israel Zangwill---an approach which recognizes his significant contributions to Anglo Jewish letters and discourse in his own day and in our contemporary historical moment, as well.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 2012.School code: 0031
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A Prophet and His People: Israel Zangwill and His American Public, 1892-1926 and Beyond
No full textThis dissertation explores the unique, significant, and sometimes contentious relationship that existed between British Jewish author and activist Israel Zangwill and the Jewish community of the United States of America from 1892-1926 and beyond. Employing a broad definition of prophets and prophecy based on the works of prominent theologians, anthropologists, sociologists, and others, this dissertation argues that Zangwill's vision of America as a new, diasporic cultural and religious center was so significant that we may reasonably characterize him as a prophet of American Judaism. This dissertation carefully studies Zangwill's prophecy and the American Jewish reaction to Zangwillian thought to better understand both the nature of Zangwill's thinking and the American Jewish community's reception of that thought. In so doing it provides important insight into Zangwill's prophetic vision for America, as well as the American Jewish community's ideological divisions, limited tolerance for criticism, and anxieties over American toleration of Jews and Judaism in the Progressive era, the 1920s, and beyond. It places the narrative of Zangwill and America within the context of American Jewish intellectual history, as well as a broader, late-nineteenth-early- twentieth-century, trans-diasporic discourse on the prospective significance of America in Jewish life and culture. Of equal importance, this study carefully explores the phenomenon of modern fame as an important component in Zangwill's popularity and legitimacy in American Jewish discourse. It grants particular focus to the role that Israel Zangwill's American public played in determining the nature of Zangwill's fame, noting the ways in which Americans helped establish the late British Jewish author's reputation as an expert on Jews and Jewish affairs despite the fact that Zangwill preferred to be known as an artist unbound by the strictures of religion, nation, or tribe. In its conclusion, this dissertation considers the ways in which American Jews have written about and discussed Zangwill since his death. It notes the proclivity of twentieth-century, American Jewish intellectuals to reduce Zangwill's biography to a synecdochic device illustrating the supposed painful divisions of the modern Jewish personality, and it argues that this study, in conjunction with the recent works of literary scholars Edna Nahshon and Meri-Jane Rochelson, signals a new direction in the study of Israel Zangwill--an approach which recognizes his significant contributions to Anglo Jewish letters and discourse in his own day and in our contemporary historical moment, as well
An introduction to Modern Psychology
No full textZangwill, O.L. An introduction to modern psychology. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950
This book, in the Home Study series, is devoted mainly to the experimental and physiological aspects of psychology, with three short chapters on intelligence, psychoanalysis, and the problems of personality. The author feels that the systematic study of personality is in its infancy, and social psychology remains a dream rather than an accepted discipline. He considers that the experimental method has led to a large number of findings in the areas of sensory processes and of learning. The main purpose of the book is to make these findings available in a scientific, but clear and simple, fashion to the general reader. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)https://digitalcommons.rockefeller.edu/jason-brown-library/1070/thumbnail.jp
Book review: "Scruton’s Aesthetics", by Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill (Palgrave & Macmillan, 2012)
No full textFew philosophers have published at the impressively prolific rate that Roger Scruton has. Of the forty-two books by Scruton listed in a special bibliography at the end of Scruton’s Aesthetics, no fewer than nine of them have been devoted to topics in aesthetics. The present volume, edited by Andy Hamilton and Nick Zangwill, arises out of a 2008 conference devoted to Scruton’s seminal work in this field. While sympathetic in tone, the majority of the essays critically engage with Scruton’s views on a number of topics in aesthetics, with particular attention devoted to issues of music and of architecture. Although Scruton’s frequently discussed and sometimes provocative views will be familiar to most readers, the contributions to this volume manage well in reconstructing enough of the background to be intelligible to the reader not already well-versed in Scruton’s wide-ranging body of work
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