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Luminaries - Princeton Faculty Remembered (Hardcover)
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Luminaries - Princeton Faculty Remembered (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Princeton University enjoys a global reputation as a productive
scholarly community that emphasizes excellence in teaching, where
senior faculty teach freshmen while making seminal contributions to
the advancement of learning. Less well known are the enduring
friendships that flourish as a result of the union of research and
teaching. This volume of memoirs provides a unique glimpse into the
minds, classrooms, and private studies of some of the most
distinguished professors of the twentieth century as seen by their
former graduate students and junior colleagues. Ranging across the
humanities, the hard sciences, the social sciences, and the applied
sciences, something of the intellectual history of this century has
been made accessible, enjoyable, and emphatically human by way of
these portraits of Princeton faculty. The fifty faculty members who
are the subjects of the essays made significant contributions to
their fields of study. Each essay delivers a brief guided tour of
"the state of the art, back when...," discusses the contributions
made by these Princetonians, and offers personal vignettes and
anecdotes at unexpected turns. The contributors were chosen based
on their ability to inform their essays with a personal
perspective. Each knew his or her subject as a teacher or mentor,
and makes this person come alive for the reader. The result is an
informative and emotional journey throughout the intellectual life
of this century. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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