Hunter Dukes

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Matthew Stanley |Hunter Dukes |Frances Wood |Richard Lea

The ideas of the German-Jewish mathematician Emmy Noether (not least the four-part theorem that bears her name) laid the foundation for much of modern physics, yet it is the case that students today can complete their degrees without having heard of her. Einstein’s Tutor by Lee Phillips seeks both to remedy this problem and understand how it came to be. Noether was born in Erlangen, Bavaria, in 1882, the daughter of the mathematician Max Noether.

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Frances Wood |Matthew Stanley |Hunter Dukes |Richard Lea

The Ming doctor Li Shizhen’s pharmacopoeia is widely known in China, and the man himself has appeared on postage stamps and in a popular film of 1956, in which he is depicted clambering over mountains in search of medicinal herbs. The Ben cao gang mu was first printed in the year of his death, 1593, but is still recognized as the main historical source of reference for Chinese materia medica – contemporary researchers plough through it looking for new cures from ancient recipes.

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Hunter Dukes

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Nov 21, 2024 | newleftreview.org | Hunter Dukes

After suffering a heart attack in 2003, the poet Kevin Killian found it difficult to write through the ensuing regimen of pharmaceuticals. ‘I couldn’t find my way to the end of a sentence, just drifted off, continuously happy, like a warm heroin or mescaline high’, he later recalled.

Nov 3, 2023 | artreview.com | Hunter Dukes

Two new books on antechambers and atriums explore the politics of transitional architectureSince moving to Germany a few months ago, a memorable part of my life has been ticked away in waiting rooms. Spend enough time in Wartezimmer and you may, like me, become transfixed by the interplay of architecture and social etiquette, protocols shaped by the contours of space.