Janna Levin




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Janna Levin, a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University, holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy with a concentration in Philosophy from Barnard College of Columbia University, and a PhD in Physics from MIT. Her scientific research mainly centers around the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes.

Dr. Levin's first novel, "How the Universe Got Its Spots: diary of a finite time in a finite space," is a widely popular science book following her personal recollections, as well as scientific studies, in letter format. Her second book, "A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines" (Knopf, 2006), won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for writers that "honors an exceptionally talented fiction writ...more




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A Madman Dreams of Turing Mach... A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
by Janna Levin
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How the Universe Got Its Spots... How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space
by Janna Levin
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A Mad Man Dreams Of Turing Mac... A Mad Man Dreams Of Turing Machines
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Madman Dreams of Turing Machin... Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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Madman Dreams of Turing Machin... Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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How the Universe Got Its Spots... How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space, Library Edition
by Janna Levin, Christine Williams (Narrator)
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A Madman Dreams of Turing Mach... A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
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Cómo le salieron las manchas... Cómo le salieron las manchas al Universo
by Janna Levin
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Mapping Perception Mapping Perception
by Janna Levin
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Longplayer Longplayer
by Jem Finer, Janna Levin
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"from a contradiction you may deduce everything"
Janna Levin (A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines)
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"Maybe truth is just like that. You can see it, but only out of the corner of your eye.

Adele never demands of him any actual conversation. She seems to understand that she is there to keep time and drown out the alarm of more individuated noises. The clink of a pin drop that can fray his nerves, the grinding of gravel beneath the weight of a man on the street, the spike of a dulled conversation as a couple pass beneath his window over Langegasse, the mounting pitch of the conspiratorial exchange as they approach."
Janna Levin (A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines)
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"I don't believe that math and nature respond to democracy. Just because very clever people have rejected the role of the infinite, their collective opinions, however weighty, won't persuade mother nature to alter her ways. Nature is never wrong."
Janna Levin (How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space)
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