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Hofstadter, a computer scientist, and his collaborator Daniel C. Dennett, a philosophy expert, avoid technical jargon and esoteric language throughout the book. Hofstadter is, or course, well practiced at writing for the layman; he authors a regular column in Scientific American and won a Pulitzer Prize for his book, Godel...
"Yes," Ujifusa said, stunned by his new acquaintance's knowledge of that esoteric fact, "it is."
Last week the 1981 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry, worth about $182,000 each, went to five men, three Americans, a Swede and a Japanese, for helping open windows on that frenzied dance of the atoms. In their work, they used one of the more esoteric tools of 20th...
There was no way whatsoever to avoid the fashions of the architectural compounds, no matter how esoteric they might become. In architecture, intellectual fashion was displayed fifty to a hundred stories high in the cities and in endless de Chirico vistas in the shopping malls of the new American suburbs...
"It is very exciting that while working on esoteric mathematical physics, we were able to find these fantastic practical applications," Heeger said.