First Principles: Building Perimeter Institute
Building Perimeter Institute
Published on 21. March 2021
299 pages
978-1-77170-136-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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03/2021
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Content
- Intro
- Foreword
- 1. Origins
- 2. Meeting Mike
- 3. Starting to Think
- 4. Getting Formal
- 5. Moving Forward
- 6. Moving and Shaking
- 7. Moving and Shaking Some More
- 8. Going Public
- 9. On the Edge
- 10. I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Okay
- 11. The Trouble with Physicists
- 12. The Three Percent Solution
- 13. My Life as an Arms Dealer
- 14. Something Tangible
- 15. Reflections on Past and Future
- Epilogue
- Another Epilogue
