First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute
By Howard Burton
Length18h 37m
About this audiobook
In this second edition of First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute, Howard Burton tells the remarkable and unconventional story—with a bold and biting humour and surprising candour—of the founding of Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Canada. Howard was the Founding Director of Perimeter Institute and his experiences at developing the research and outreach mandates of PI are described in this thought-provoking book featuring a foreword by Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose.
How was PI created from scratch, from first principles? What were the hurdles? What were the challenges? What was the ''Howard and Mike show'' all about and what did BlackBerrys and RIM have to do with PI? In vivid and compelling detail, Howard describes his remarkable odyssey of partnering with BlackBerry founder Mike Lazaridis to develop a pioneering new theoretical physics institute entirely from scratch.
Audiobook details
GenreScience and Nature, Education and Learning, Psychology
Length18 hrs 37 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Contents
2Foreword
31. Origins
42. Meeting Mike
53. Starting to Think
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64. Getting Formal
75. Moving Forward
86. Moving and Shaking
97. Moving and Shaking Some More
108. Going Public
119. On the Edge
1210. I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay (pt. 1)
1310. I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay (pt. 2)
1410. I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay (pt. 3)
1510. I’m a Lumberjack and I’m Okay (pt. 4)
1611. The Trouble with Physicists
1712. The Three Percent Solution
1813. My Life as an Arms Dealer
1914. Something Tangible
2015. Reflections on Past and Future
21Epilogue
22Another Epilogue
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