Philippe Tlokinski in
Adventures of a Mathematician
Perhaps the most tragic but also the most ironic words on the invention of the atomic bomb were uttered by Albert Einstein - “no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap” – the very man who, in 1939, had suggested US President Franklin D. Roosevelt hurry to build one to use against Hitler (“my one great mistake”, he later admitted). The fact remains that the atomic bomb was a sore point for a very long time (and still is today) and, in the field of mass culture, the Manhattan Project was the inspiration behind films, TV series and comic book characters, such as
29/04/2021 - Germany’s Thor Klein tackles the biography of the Polish mathematician Stanislaw Ulam, who took part in the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb
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