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Rebecca Goldstein grew up in the White Plains region of New York, where she was born in 1950. Her father was the cantor of the Orthodox Hebrew Institute of White Plains. It was her father who instilled in her a love for stories. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College in Connecticut, and was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. It was after the birth of her daughter, and the death of her father, that she first approached philosophy from a fictional perspective. This led to the publication of her first novel, “The Mind-Body Problem”. This was followed by “The Late-Summer Passion of Woman of Mind”, “The Dark Sister”, which won The Whiting Writer’s Award, “Mazel” which won The National Jewish Book Award in 1995 and The Edward Lewis Wallant Award, followed by “Properties of Light”. Rebecca Goldstein’s short stories were collected in a volume called “Strange Attractors”. Her latest books are “Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel”, an attempt to get inside Godel’s head, and “Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity”. At the moment, she is working on a book about Spinoza and the Jews. Rebecca Goldstein became a MacArthur Fellow in 1996, and was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.
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Properties of Light -
Kevin Patrick Mahoney reviews Goldstein's novel on hidden variables.
Below are some links that explore the cultural context of the novel:
Read
an extract from Properties of Light
Europe:
A Prophecy - explores the quotation from Blake that starts the novel
Mutatis
Mutandis - a definition
Law of the Excluded
Middle - a definition
He Remembers
Forgotten Beauty by William Butler Yeats - as quoted on p.21
What is a
Cosmos? - a discussion of the full meaning of this Greek word,
elaborated upon by Goldstein on p.36
APS
News: Merzbacher - brief bio of Merzbacher, who's mentioned on p.37
Introduction
to Quantum Mechanics - by none less than Shelly Goldstein, Rebecca
Goldstein's hubby
The
Quantum Handshake - more on Quantum Mechanics
Schrodinger's
Cat - a discussion
The
Quantum Measurement Problem - as mentioned by Goldstein on p.38
Wolfgang
Pauli - a bio of the man Goldstein mentions on p.40
Wolfgang
Pauli - more on Pauli
Quantum
Magi - mentions 'nonmechanics' (see p.42)
Niels Bohr -
a bio of the man Goldstein mentions on p.45
Niels
Henrik David Bohr - mentions 'complementarity', which Goldstein later
uses to describe the beginning of the relationship between Justin Childs and
Samuel Mallach (see p.46)
Empedocles -
who was this Greek chap that Goldstein mentions on p. 46?
Crossways by William Blake - the source of the quote
on p.56
The Song
of the Happy Shepherd - where Blake and Yeats intertwine
Exodus -
the word "Mallach" is defined here. It's curious that Dana's
described as "this Pharaoh's girl" (p.93)
Hendrik
Antoon Lorentz - a bio of the man Goldstein mentions on p.71
Non-machian,
Lorentz-invariant inertia - a discussion
Backwards causation - a
definition (see p.72)
Song of the
Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats - source of the "Though
I am old with wandering" quote on p. 73
Quantum Nonlocality -
as mentioned on p. 92
Deepening the
Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin
Science Frontiers
Online - reveals the source of the "All things linked are"
quote on p. 95
The Mistress of Vision by
Francis Thompson - the whole poem
Francis Thompson - a
bio of this fascinating poet
God According to Job's
Friends - see p. 104
Kundalini - a discussion
- see p.111
A Tribute to
Hinduism - mentions Schrodinger (see p.113)
Cit-sakti - more about Kundalini
When you are old... by
William Butler Yeats - source of the "one man loved the pilgrim
soul in you" p. 172
George Berkeley -
a bio of the Bishop Goldstein mentions on p. 176
Kashmir: Distortions
and Reality - mentions Bishop Berkeley's theories on reality
The
Happy Molecules Explained - discusses Boltzmann's Paradox, as
mentioned on p. 177
The Arrow of Time -
discussed
Libido
Sciendi - in this page, Rebecca Goldstein defines what she means
by this phrase on p. 214
Hobbes' Leviathan -
is the source of the "lust of the mind" quote p.214
The Hidden-Variable
Theory of David Bohm - discussed
Infinite
Potential: The Life and Times of David Bohm - a review of F. David
Peat's book
David Bohm Report: Major
Sources – This webpage, now offline, mentioned that Bohm went out with Betty
Goldstein, author of 'The Feminine Mystique'. Says that Bohm had a
graduate student called Chris Philippidis, perhaps a model for Justin Childs?
Collaboration
Bohmian Mechanics
Home
Page of Sheldon Goldstein - there can be little doubt that Rebecca
Goldstein got the inspiration for 'Properties of Light' from her husband
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Portrait
of the artist as risk taker – Rebecca Goldstein writes
about how she first became an author of fiction
Portrait:
Rebecca Goldstein – in which Goldstein reveals that she loves the work of
Plato, and talks about her upbringing
Catching
up with Rebecca Goldstein, the imp of metaphysics – Heller McAlpin’s
interview
The
Beautiful Mind Problem – Rebecca Goldstein talks to The Jerusalem Post’s
Netty C Gross
Rebecca
Goldstein interview on Kurt Godel – an audio interview
Edge:
Godel and the Nature of Mathematical Truth – Edge’s interview with Rebecca
Goldstein
Steven
Pinker – his comprehensive interview with Rebecca Goldstein
Free Radical –
Stephen Vider’s interview with Rebecca Goldstein concerning “Betraying Spinoza”
California
Literary Review – their interview with Rebecca Goldstein
IT Conversations
– has an audio interview with Rebecca Goldstein
Conversation:
Physics and Fiction – Alan Lightman talks to Rebecca Goldstein in this
video
Jacobowitz, Susan ""Hardly There Even When She Wasn't Lost": Orthodox Daughters and the "Mind-Body Problem" in Contemporary Jewish American Fiction" Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies - Volume 22, Number 3, Spring 2004, pp. 72-94
Mathematics and the Character of Tragedy – read this illuminating essay by Rebecca Goldstein (pdf format)
Dancing at Two Weddings: Rebecca Goldstein’s Mazel – Between Exile & Diaspora – read Murray Baumgarten’s essay (pdf format)
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