Arthur I. Miller
{{Short description|History professor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
Arthur I. Miller is Emeritus Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London.[http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000004316 Short biographical entry at Royal Institution] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211235610/http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?action=displayContent&id=00000004316 |date=February 11, 2012 }} He took a PhD in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1991 to 2005 he was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London (UCL). At UCL, Professor Miller helped restructure an academic unit combining history and philosophy of science, sociology of science, and science communication to create UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies, renamed in 1994. He was instrumental in developing the UK's first undergraduate single honours BSc degree in History and Philosophy of Science, at UCL, launched in 1993.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sts/about_sts|title=About UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies|website=UCL|language=en|access-date=2017-07-27}}
Selected bibliography
=Books=
- {{cite book |title=Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation (1905-1911)|location=Reading, MA |publisher=Addison Wesley |year=1981 }}
- {{cite book |title=Frontiers of Physics 1900-1911:Selected Essays |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Birkhaeuser |year=1986 }}
- {{cite book |title=Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating 20th-Century Physics|location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press |year=1986 }}
- {{cite book |title=Early Quantum Electrodynamics: A Source Book|location=Cambridge, UK |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1995 }}
- {{cite book |title=Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=MIT Press |year=2000 }}
- {{cite book |title=Einstein, Picasso : space, time and the beauty that causes havoc |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |year=2001 }}
- Deciphering the Cosmic Number—The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung, W. W. Norton & Co. (2009) {{ISBN|0-393-06532-4}}[http://plus.maths.org/content/deciphering-cosmic-number Review of Deciphering the cosmic number, plus.maths.org]
- Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes, Little, Brown & Company (2005) {{ISBN|0-316-72555-2}}{{cite journal|title=Review: Empire of the Stars|author=Ferreira, Pedro G.|date=29 April 2005|journal=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/apr/30/featuresreviews.guardianreview24}}
- [https://archive.org/details/137-jung-pauli-and-the-pursuit-of-a-scientific-obsession-arthur-i.-miller/mode/1up Deciphering the Cosmic Number (137): Jung, Pauli, and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession], W. W. Norton & Co. (2009) {{ISBN|0-393-06532-4}}
- Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science Is Redefining Contemporary Art, W. W. Norton & Company (2014) {{ISBN|0-393-08336-5}}
- The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity, The MIT Press (2019) {{ISBN|0-262-04285-1}}
=Critical studies and reviews of Miller's work=
;The artist in the machine
- {{cite journal |author=Heaven, Douglas |date=December 14, 2019 |title=Pure genius ... but is it art? |department=Views. Culture |journal=New Scientist |volume=244 |issue=3260 |pages=30–31|doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(19)32363-2 }}
;Einstein, Picasso
- {{cite news|author=Everdell, William R.|authorlink=William Everdell|title=Space-time Cubism|date=6 May 2001|newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/01/05/06/reviews/010506.06everdet.html}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.arthurimiller.com}}
- [http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/57947.Arthur_I_Miller Publications at Goodreads.com]
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Category:Academics of University College London
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Category:Fellows of the American Physical Society
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