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Tony Rothman (born 1953) is an American theoretical physicist , academic and writer.[2]
Early life
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Tony is the son of physicist and science fiction writer Milton A. Rothman and psychotherapist Doris W. Rothman.
He holds a B.A. from Swarthmore College , (1975) and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin (1981), where he studied at the Center for Relativity under the supervision of its long-time director Richard Matzner . He continued on post-doctoral fellowships at Oxford under Dennis Sciama , Moscow State University under Yakov Zeldovich and the University of Cape Town under George F.R. Ellis .
Career
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Rothman worked briefly as an editor at Scientific American Harvard , Illinois Wesleyan University , Bryn Mawr College and from 2005 to 2013 at Princeton University . In January 2016 he joined the faculty of NYU Polytech, now known as the Tandon School of Engineering, and retired from teaching there in 2019.
Rothman's scientific research has been concerned mainly with general relativity and cosmology , for which he has made contributions to the study of the early universe, specifically cosmic nucleosynthesis, black holes, inflationary cosmology and gravitons.
Rothman was the scientific editor for Andrei Sakharov 's Memoirs and he has contributed to numerous magazines, including Scientific American ,Discover ,American Scientist The New Republic History Today .Alexander Raskatov .
Selected works
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Tony Rothman's first book,[3] The World is Round Censored Tales (1989). He has also published six books of popular science and science history. His collection A Physicist on Madison Avenue (1991) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize , while Doubt and Certainty , with George Sudarshan , was chosen by the A-List as one of the 200 best books of 1998. He co-authored Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry with Fukagawa Hidetoshi.[4] sangaku in English, and won the Association of American Publisher's 2008 PROSE award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in mathematics. His play The Magician and the Fool , about Pushkin and Galois, won the 1981 Oxford Experimental Theatre Club competition, and his play The Sand Reckoner , about Archimedes, received a staged reading at Harvard in 1995. He has also written five other plays, on mathematical and musical subjects.
Rothman's published writings encompass hundreds of works in 7 languages and include 3,073 library holdings.[5]
2022 — A Little Book about the Big Bang
2016 — Physics Mastery
2015 — The Course of Fortune
2015 — Firebird
2008 — Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry
2003 — Everything's relative: and other fables from science and technology
1998 — Doubt and certainty: the celebrated academy (with E.C.G. Sudarshan )
1995 — Instant physics : from Aristotle to Einstein, and beyond
1991 — A physicist on Madison Avenue
1989 — Science à la mode: physical fashions and fictions
1989 — Censored tales
1985 — Frontiers of modern physics: new perspectives on cosmology, relativity, black holes, and extraterrestrial intelligence
1978 — The World is Round
Notes
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^ Lifeboat Foundation: Advisory Board, Tony Rothman bio notes Archived 2010-02-14 at the Wayback Machine
^ The World is Round became my first work accepted for publication and my second work to appear. Tony Rothman (1996). "The World is Round" . Archived from the original on 11 September 2006.
^ Boutin, Chad. "Rothman helps reveal intricacies of ancient math phenomenon," Princeton Weekly Bulletin. June 5, 2006.
^ WorldCat Identities : Rothman, Tony
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